When you’re winding up a piece of prose, metre is crucial. Can’t you hear? Can’t you hear that it is wrong? It’s not fucking rocket science.
— Restaurant reviewer Giles Coren in response to the removal of a single indefinite article from the final sentence of a recent review, by his sub-editors at The Times. He’s spot on with his criticism of their heavy-handedness, but boy is he fired up. (via Marc Feustel)
