Ordinary writers, unpleasant people …

… The Unfun Couple, (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Susan Sontag's English prose reads as if it were a hurried translation from the French. George Steiner specialized in the clotted sentence and the wild connection, an example of the latter being "Antigone draws about herself an ethical solitude, a lucid dryness which seems to prefigure the stringencies of Kant."