Sensible Archaeology?

[gwyl]

some definitions of quality err toward the personal tics; which is not to say that we shouldn't have good sentence structure, but i would also throw in that the tradition of sentences comprised of clauses and sub-clauses has a long and honourable history finding its origins in Latin, if not ancient Greek, or earlier - and indeed deader - languages; was it not Cicero who described going through the rooms of a house presenting his argument; perhaps some authors have merely gone to one of those architects who run out the plans then on the day or two before breaking ground phone you up to enquire whether you're available for a watching brief, which is part of their planning, but which they managed to overlook in the rush to get the job done on time for the client and could you be there ASAP, or perhaps the house plans which these authors are following are more circumlocative and attempt to describe and interpret hermeneutically, acknowledging explicitally their own input in their output; which is not to say that they all do, but merely to defend their right to do so...