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Zhorakovsky

19 февраля 2018 г., 02:03

Wildean antitheses are not... «The Elements of Eloquence»

Wildean antitheses are not too hard. You make a first statement that is relatively obvious, for example, ‘If a man is a gentleman he knows quite enough.’ The second half begins in an obvious way: ‘If he is not a gentleman’ … and then takes an odd turn: ‘whatever he knows is bad for him.’