I follow Mencken - play you should with words, but always with rules. The words have meaning. If you look up any word he uses you don't know, you find he used it correctly, and to express a shade, or because he needed its sounds as opposed to synonym's sounds. At best, writing is not only musical, it is better than music, in the sense a female orgasm is better than male, because if not quite as high a top peak, a higher and sustainabler average.
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