Pointing a new English writer at Wallace is like pointing a Lisp newbie at the SBCL compiler for a code sample. I love his writing, but it is dense and hard to

Pointing a new English writer at Wallace is like pointing a Lisp newbie at the SBCL compiler for a code sample. I love his writing, but it is dense and hard to comprehend. It is not, IMHO, a good example for a beginning writer.