Maybe literary was the wrong word for me to use, but I get the sense that it is a purposeful use of the word for stylistic purposes, and that Tim Pope isn't lea

Maybe literary was the wrong word for me to use, but I get the sense that it is a purposeful use of the word for stylistic purposes, and that Tim Pope isn't leaning on it as a crutch. I feel like you're treating your prescriptivism of how the English language should be used as more objective than it really is.