Tradition is Growth

I hear from occasional readers (who want to be sure I am well informed) that Tradition is being flouted, not to say undermined, by certain conspirators who wander about the country promoting a Cult of Unintelligibility. Key journals even, such as NATIONAL REVIEW, are alleged to have been infiltrated. I hoped for a while to be shown some really unintelligible piece of writing, which would be a remarkable feat of uncreation, but I am getting less sanguine. Perhaps my informants are imperfectly diligent, but what they have turned up so far, allowance made for normal ellipses and discontinuities, seems to be well within the pale of meaning.

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I hear from occasional readers (who want to be sure I am well informed) that Tradition is being flouted, not to say undermined, by certain conspirators who wander about the country promoting a Cult of Unintelligibility. Key journals even, such as NATIONAL REVIEW, are alleged to have been infiltrated. I hoped for a while to be shown some really unintelligible piece of writing, which would be a remarkable feat of uncreation, but I am getting less sanguine. Perhaps my informants are imperfectly diligent, but what they have turned up so far, allowance made for normal ellipses and discontinuities, seems to be well within the pale of meaning.

Kenner