A few paragraphs in the author seemed very pretentious in their writing style.
> By now, you may well ask why I have paid so much attention to and have spent so much eloquence on such a simple and obvious notion as the radical novelty.
Maybe this is because English isn't my first language, but doesn't this come off as pretty pretentious? Calling your own writing eloquent, in that same writing?
Anyway, then I scrolled down to the bottom to see who the author was. I suppose he has the right to some pretentiousness.
Hard to say, as a native speaker eloquence here doesn’t seem to refer to the authors own eloquence but rather the amount of words and roundabout explanations they’ve dedicated to the topic. Ie, in contrast to a simple explanation for the obvious things. If anything it reads a touch self deprecating.
> By now, you may well ask why I have paid so much attention to and have spent so much eloquence on such a simple and obvious notion as the radical novelty.
Maybe this is because English isn't my first language, but doesn't this come off as pretty pretentious? Calling your own writing eloquent, in that same writing?
Anyway, then I scrolled down to the bottom to see who the author was. I suppose he has the right to some pretentiousness.