This is reflected in the prose of the book, making it always entertaining and easy to read if, one suspects, deliberately provocative at times.
Some speakers condemned it as "pompous" and "outdated, eighteenth century prose".
He evidently did not consider prose to be an option.
But these are minor caveats when the writing is as good as this: the reach so wide, the thought so intense, the prose so vivid.
Obviously this preference for simple verb forms rather than more specific tense markers is not characteristic of all contemporary prose.
Although conversation is distinct from it, spoken prose influences educated and formal spoken usage.
They are simply dull, with the smooth banality of the prose crushing the life out of the material.
And written in academic prose, it gives very little back to the scene.
