He can no more say it short than A.J.P. Taylor can say it long. In the long sentences of Proust you can still hear the aphoristic tradition that started with Pascal. In the long sentences of Levin you can hear a tradition being forgotten.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "He can no more say it short than A.J.P. Taylor can say it long. In the long sentences of Proust you can still hear the aphoristic tradition that started with Pascal. In the long sentences of Levin you can hear a tradition being forgotten." in the context of "Clive James "Bernard Levin: Book Two", London Review of Books, 1:4 (6 December 1979)
• The book under review, Taking Sides (Cape), a collection of Levin's columns for The Times, was only the second book Levin published." to mean that wisdom is timeless.