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Mentions Hemingway, if you have watched "midnight in paris" you will get a feel for the popular didacticism implicit in his recommendations to style, baby shoes aside.

Doesn't mention Thomas Mann, or Proust. Two exemplars of people who felt the comma and semicolon justified parenthetical statements which run to the page count length, not the word count length, in coruscating piles. I think Proust was having a lend of us, it's "tristram shandy" shaggy dog stories brought into the modern era by an aesthete. I think Thomas Mann just didn't know how to stop.