prose

“My father lived often in darkness, although his prose is filled with light,” she now believes.

One of the first things that stands out about “Tokyo Express” is the elegant spareness of its prose.

Its mission was to produce prose in the style of Herman Melville’s famous story “Bartleby the Scrivener,” about an office worker who responds to his boss’s requests with “I would prefer not to.”

Its orotund prose certainly differs from the lean muscularity of the Second Inaugural or the elegiac concision of the Gettysburg Address.

This being a show that champions truth, justice and philosophically resonant prose, Lee and his kid skate free of trouble.