What are the most beautiful pieces of writing qua writing that you know?
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I'm especially interested in short pieces - including songs, poems, and speeches - that I can enjoy and get inside.
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To be frank, this isn't something I have much of an eye for, nor think systematically about.
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Let me give a few random examples. From a letter Feynman wrote Watson about the draft of "The Double Helix":pic.twitter.com/Lf4Y8ntY2B
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It's difficult to separate the quality of the form from the ideas behind it, of course, and I shan't try. An example: much of the writing in Martin Amis's "The War Against Cliche" is lovely, but ultimately it feels somewhat empty.
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This is very good, by Steven Pinker. It's plain and economical and accomplishes an enormous amount. "The Language Instinct" is also a fantastic title.pic.twitter.com/qdFSHxmJCc
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BTW, I echoed Pinker as homage at the start of one of my books: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap1.html pic.twitter.com/DfZhsmywCG
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