Prospero | Financial writing
The world's worst sentence?
Why don't book editors weed out the stylistic failings of authors?
By P.J.C.
FINANCIAL books are not renowned for their literary merits. Neverthless, the reader is still entitled to expect something better than the following (from Philip Mirowski's new book "Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste"):
Yet the nightmare cast its shroud in the guise of a contagion of a deer-in-the-headlights paralysis.
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