As for eschewing modifiers, he encourages writers to adjectivize and adverbize inventively, and even to concoct neologisms, or made-up words.

When we carry ourselves as far as we can and feel we can go no further, that's when we should be on the lookout for a God Wink. It's coming.

sleaved thread or silk

The old man bowed his hoary head in acquiescence.