Just to continue the conversation, let me suggest that there are essays of an explanatory or descriptive nature which are so evocative and vivid as to require little effort to imagine and image.
That said, even though I try for clarity in my own descriptions, I do try to leave something for the imagination. I like to conceal tiny glinting nuances of secondary meanings which can give additional delight to the astute observer.
Good Lord, what have I wrought? I pointed out two failings in a single article and I've got egos crawling out of the woodwork; look guys, the sentence I parsed made no sense as it was written and I am the first to allow that it was editorial rather than authorial.
Even Churchill apologized for not having enough time to write a shorter piece.
Just to continue the conversation, let me suggest that there are essays of an explanatory or descriptive nature which are so evocative and vivid as to require little effort to imagine and image.
True; I didn't think of that.
That said, even though I try for clarity in my own descriptions, I do try to leave something for the imagination. I like to conceal tiny glinting nuances of secondary meanings which can give additional delight to the astute observer.
That illustrates exactly what I was trying to say.