It's run by committee, a loose aggregate of entities we can't really call human, but which have what look like lives of a sort . . . The banished body is not female, necessarily, but it is feminine. . . That is, it is amorphous, indirect, impure, diffuse, multiple, evasive. So is what we learned to call bad writing. Good writing is direct, effective, clean as a bleached bone.
Bad writing is all flesh, and dirty flesh at that . . .