I read this a decade ago, and tried to practice it. The only problem is that people pay less attention because you don't sound as impressive... OTOH maybe I ca

I read this a decade ago, and tried to practice it. The only problem is that people pay less attention because you don't sound as impressive... OTOH maybe I can recommend it: using this approach, I did win a prize for an essay-based subject (non-computer science)... And there was another essay I wrote that one lecturer gave to another lecturer to read because it was so "stimulating". BTW: Orwell mentions "dead metaphors". There's a really cool rhetorical device called "reviving a dead metaphor". A simple way to do this is to take mixed (dead) metaphors and unmix them. The impact can be strikingly visceral. \EDIT {it's all coming back to me now... when I used metaphors in this way, they became true isomorphisms, revealing a much deeper and more informative - and even predictive - correspondence. For an example, note that the desktop metaphor is itself a dead metaphor that is also an isomorphism.} Finally: Orwell did not do well romantically. It makes one think twice about emulating him. I try to remember this test before following advice :-)