Another direction

Just something to offset the symmetry of 09.09.09

I'm reminded of a confession Brendan Gill made about his education at The New Yorker.

Gill had been cultivating a "fancy" style, but editor Rogers Whitaker, "circling a long and elaborately balanced sentence of mine . . . had scribbled on the margin of the galley, 'If you tapped this sentence at one end, it would never stop rocking.' After that, I took care to be as little Gibbon- esque as possible."