Stanley Fish (1938) American academic
Source: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 3, It's Not The Thought That Counts, p. 33
“Lists make magic, the rhythm of itemized words: you do not list ten techniques, numbered and chantable, in austere prose appropriate for some early-millennium rebooted Book of Thoth, and not know that you have written an incantation.”
— China Miéville, book The 9th Technique
The 9th Technique (p. 102)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)
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