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Re: a technical manual, why can't it be clear and easily readable?

SuperDave,

You find The Golfing Machine unintelligible for the same reason you
would find a post-introductory text in virtually any technical field
unintelligible: You understand neither the concepts being presented
nor the professional terms used to present them. This would be
particularly true of a Handbook whose stated goal is to briefly acquaint
the student with both.

With diligent application, the reader can bootstrap himself to the level of
the text as presented. Or, for a shorter way to the same objective, he can
train under a competent Authorized Instructor. Absent one or the other or
both of these approaches, the book will remain inaccessible. That fact does
not detract from the genius of Homer Kelley's work...


It reveals it.