If people read more great literature - like Faulkner - they’d have a better understanding. But here at FR if you spend your college days reading great works of literature rather than going to engineering class...you’re a dope. But at least I understand my country’s history.
To me, good writing is like good engineering.
Every word or part serves a purpose, each functions as an integral part of the whole, there are none that are superfluous, and they all fit together properly to form the desired end product.
"It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law."
-- Louis H. Sullivan, architect known as Father Of Skyscrapers