There are more forms of bad writing, Horatio, than in all the books in the library where you go to see if there is a new Clive Cussler book out yet or maybe a Stephen King or one of those spy things like Robert Mitchum could act in -- something, at any rate, that was more exciting than your own life, more vital than your own mind, and at least breathing faster than an emphysema patient in a near-death experience. That's the point. The rules become kind of self evident as soon as that is clear. You'll see -- just think about.

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