Strunk and White, indeed. It may not show, but I've actually opened my ragged, old copy a couple of times recently. ;)
'Spot on sentiment.' Yes. I suppose I see Noonan as more artist than thinker.
As for the images: my rationale for using them
I've done some myself for children's educational CD's... and you are spot-on with your assessment. It's fun to run a loop and see when you've 'nailed-it'... by the smile on the person who did the audio.
THE VIRTUAL HILLARY RATIONALE : My initial objective was to document, expose and indict the clintons with their own words and deeds.
My first character was virtual hillary.
I deliberately made virtual hillary robotic to capture missus clinton's preprogrammed content and flat affect.
My goal was also to capture missus clinton's fraudulence and profound psychological dysfunction, especially her repressed rage.
I do this contrapuntally, that is to say, by sequencing her phony, cloying speeches, e.g., "I could hardly breathe...." or "There's nothing more wonderful than making dreams come true...." with her rageful outbursts, e.g., "I am sick and tired..." or "have a right." Good examples of this technique can be found in the following two pieces below.
This technique may cause clinton's speech to sound like hyperbole, but in my view it is not. It is missus clinton's dysfunction and fraudulence reduced to their essence.
Virtual hillary's words, i.e., hillary clinton words, sound like hyperbole also because hillary clinton makes amazingly stupid statements, statements that border on the surreal.
A recent example: "I keep in my desk drawer a tiny little camera that you can swallow in order to see what is inside you," an amazingly stupid statement coming from someone so infamously small, fraudulent and repressed.
This statement provided not only wonderful audio, but also the context in which to invert (x-ray-ize) the images to see what is actually inside this small, fraudulent and repressed woman.
A camera?!!???