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...desire and ease, rather than self-improvement or showiness, when it comes to the private act of actually turning the pages. Hence, a formula that indicates what percentage of books sold are really read. The Fully Read Index , (FRI) equals the Author Comfort Index (ACI) times the Simple Prose Coefficient...
...Simple Prose Coefficient is, well, simple. A score of 9.9 indicates that a casual reader in an enclosed space where jet engines are being tested at 30- second intervals will catch virtually every nuance. (A score of 10 is impossible, reserved for the realm of television game shows or the news columns of USA Today...
...fantasy novelists, Barker does not feel compelled to be logical or consistent: the dreamlike narrative has a kitchen-sink inclusiveness and cheats the rationalist in that characters turn out in mid- action to be someone else entirely, cunningly disguised. But the images are vivid, the asides incisive and the prose elegant in this joyride of a story...
...teaching courses in the Social Studies Concentration. Specifically, he referred to the "antiquarian exegesis" used in Social Studies, and discussed how Sociology was involved in a battle "to squash the competition." In a subsequent interview, however, Patterson said he had not meant any insult. "Look what has happened to prose," Patterson complained, saying that his words had been misinterpreted. He said the problem with American writers is that their prose is too "bland," and he was just trying to spice it up a little...
Padan Aram prose board member Eleanor Stafford '92 said the magazine shies away from publishing more than one piece per issue by a single author. Stafford said the magazine wanted "to prevent the creation of a set `repertoire' of Padan Aram writers...