> "Their prose is better thought of as an artistic performance than a functional machine." Nail on head. The relationship between the words of the above and re

> "Their prose is better thought of as an artistic performance than a functional machine." Nail on head. The relationship between the words of the above and reality is similar to the relationship between a painting of a landscape and the real landscape. It's not that the painting is not valuable in itself, but it would be a mistake to think that it says anything about how the landscape actually works