What is 'lucid writing'?/ Yukio Mishima (1959)
It is said that when asked about the secret of writing, Mori Ogai replied, "First, clarity, second, and third". This is one of the definitive attitudes of a writer toward writing. It is well known that Stendhal modeled his writing on the "Napoleonic Code" and created a style of rare clarity. In fact, it is this kind of lucid writing that is the most difficult for the layman to imitate and the most subtle to taste with the tongue. This is because it is the opposite of tastelessness, and yet it is the opposite of tastelessness.Here is what Herbert Read said about Hawthorne's writing style. It seems to me that this is a very lucid definition of what "lucid writing" is all about. Herbert Read says the following:
を読み返してきた。時折、何かの拍子に、脳裏を過（よぎ）るのは、「理性の酩酊」という、三島の泉鏡花評だ。
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