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While he certainly can be eccentric, solipsistic, and turgid, at his best moments West is shrewd, courageous, and inspirational.
For one thing, LawGuy's answers were clear and prompt, while the actual lawyers' answers could be turgid, filled with statutory language, including formal citations, sometimes posted long after the question appeared.
One need only read the academic papers published in linguistic journals to be convinced that, notwithstanding their specialty, linguists at large are incapable of writing simple, expository, declarative sentences without resorting to turgid syntax, obscure vocabulary, and uncompromising sesquipedalianism.
It is hard to imagine that this book would be picked up by anyone but a lexicographer or someone interested enough in becoming one to subject himself to such a turgid presentation; in the event, one might assume a certain level of familiarity with the subject.
But by the end of his life Kubrick had little stretch left: He didn't extend himself to fit his material, he contracted his material to fit his turgid tempos.