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Dear Mr. Marx,
English being my second language I'm always eager for
instruction. I gather you disapprove of Middius prose. Could you.
please, contribute a few of your favourite literary examples of good
"Englih expression".
Incidentally, I find this use of the noun "expression" somewhat
unusual. A few citations supporting your usage would be welcome.
Yours, eager to save money on night schooling
Ludovic Mirabel

Thanks for giving me yet another sex change.
'English expression' is common usage. It stands for the skill, or
lack, facility in expressing oneself in English. I hope that's
sufficiently unambiguous.

Examples of good English expression? (how come you know how to use that
phrase when finding it somewhat unusual?}
1. G.E.Moore 'Principia Ethica' Publ' 1971 Cambridge University Press
2. Mark Mason ' The Christian Holocaust' 1981 Markwell Press Hong Kong
3. Rudolf Arnheim 'Visual Thinking' 1969 University of Californa Press
4. Gail Bell ' The Worried Well' Quarterly Essays 2005 Issue 18 Black
Inc Melbourne
5. William Boyd 'The History of Western Education' (Revised Edition)
1966 A. & C. Black Ltd Bristol.
6. Louis Breger 'Freud: Darkness in The Midst of Vision' 2000 John
Wiley & Sons New York.
7. John Passmore ' A Hundred Years of Philosophy' 1966 Penguin. UK.
8. Bertrand Russell ' The Problems of Philosophy' 1974 Oxford
University Press.
9. Jean Seznec 'The Survival of The Pagan Gods: The Mythological
Tradition and It's Place in Renaissance Humanism and Art' (translated
from the French into cogent English by Barbara F Sessions) 1961 Harper
Torchbooks New York.
10. Dale Spender 'Women of Ideas and what Men have Done to them' 1982
Ark Paperbacks London.

That should keep you going for a while petal.