Aslan refers to Mark's gospel as being written in a "coarse, elementary Greek" – which nevertheless is supposed to appeal to cultural, Hellenised Jews rather than illiterate Galileans.
VIGNOLS, France — High in the thick grass meadows of the southern French Alps, a modern parable of man and nature, sheep and wolf, is being written in a great quantity of blood.
Interfaces are being written in a number of African languages, but even the clearest instructions in Wolof or Yoruba as to how to use Windows presume a fair degree of literacy.
Still, deliberate simplicity is as hazardous as the grand style, and Vonnegut occasionally skids into fatuousness — in his apology, for example, and when he addresses his publisher by name, and in this passage: The news of the day, meanwhile, was being written in a ribbon of lights on a building to Billy's back.
As guitarist John Williams told Radio 3's Music Matters, the Guitar Concerto (written towards the end of his life, in 1951) just isn't a very good piece, technically or musically, with its underdeveloped ideas, its sense of being written in a hurry, and its lack of a real relationship between the soloist and the orchestra.
Still, deliberate simplicity is as hazardous as the grand style, and Vonnegut occasionally skids into fatuousness — in his apology, for example, and when he addresses his publisher by name, and in this passage: **{:.break one} ** The news of the day, meanwhile, was being written in a ribbon of lights on a building to Billy's back.
