[mpalmer]

"a kind of paper that already looks guilty"

[onraglanroad]

I like that line. The kind of cheap floozy paper that suggests something bad has been written on it, even when it's perfectly innocent.

[npinsker]

That’s not looking “guilty” though. Paper cannot be guilty, only humans.

[scubbo]

There are plenty of valid criticisms of the article, but this isn't one of them. I'd be embarrassed to call myself a fan of Pratchett while failing to recognize dramatic anthropomorphization (indeed, Pratchett was where teenaged-me first learned the word)

[mpalmer]

It's not a matter of not recognizing it. It's just nonsensical, it's completely free of wit or cleverness. Speaking as an enthusiastic fan of the man's actual writing.

[scubbo]

So paper _can_ look guilty, you just don't like this particular usage of rhetoric? Which is it?

[vintagedave]

Of course it can. That's writing.