August 7, 2020

�If ’compression is the first grace of style,�
you have it. Contractility is a virtue
as modesty is a virtue.
It is not the acquisition of any one thing
that is able to adorn,
or the incidental quality that occurs
as a concomitant of something well said,
that we value in style,
but the principle that is hid:
in the absence of feet, `a method of conclusions�;
`a knowledge of principles,�
in the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn.�

 — Marianne Moore, �To a Snail� (Observations, 1924)

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