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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one`s real and one`s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

(Some of his characters were underdeveloped, to the extent that their speeches could be (and sometimes were, in Wilson`s habitual frequent rewrites) interchanged. His dramatic structures and even his use of the musical powers of African American idioms were fairly old-fashioned compared with the exciting adventurousness of Suzan-Lori Parks. But even his traditionalism could be seen as a source of strength.) He was writing in the grand tradition of Eugene O`Neill and Arthur Miller, ... the politically engaged, direct, social-realist drama. He was reclaiming ground for the theater that most people thought had been abandoned.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one`s real and one`s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.