Surprise, Surprise...

...since we last spoke, I crossed the country.

Thank you for your robust response to my questions about style and Henry Green.

When some people hear “style,” they may think, “high style” - that is, they think of prose that operates in the upper/unnatural register, in order to be more expressive (prose that may be, purposely or otherwise, difficult to parse). So: Henry Green, Henry James, James Joyce, the Faulkner of “Absalom, Absalom,” and so on.

Of course, any piece of writing has style. Sometimes the style is simply a style that tries to vanish, so there’s just world there, no words - we might think of Hemingway at his best.