![]() ![]() Like beauty, it claims only the privilege of being a grace note in the culture that permits it. The main attribute of eloquence is gratuitousness: its place in the world is to be without place or function, its mode is to be intrinsic. It is a gift to be enjoyed in appreciation and practice. " Eloquence, as distinct from rhetoric, has no aim: it is a play of words or other expressive means. Denis Donoghue on the Gift of Eloquence.(Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride, 1951) "Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.". ![]()
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