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I find this author's writing style very hard to digest. I'm a native speaker and sentences like these give me impostor syndrome, making me wonder if my literacy
by bluehex 9y ago
I find this author's writing style very hard to digest. I'm a native speaker and sentences like these give me impostor syndrome, making me wonder if my literacy is lacking:
> The force of mind rooted in the soil of adversity didn’t take hold in the flower beds of prosperity; placed under the protective custody of the atomic bomb and sicklied o’er with the pale cast of money, the native hues of resolution lost the name of action.
> Why and wherefrom the trigger warnings, and whose innocence or interest are they meant to comfort, defend, and preserve?
- smhost 9y agoIt's just an old school style of writing. We've moved on from the elitist styles to a more democratic one. The cool thing to do now is to use simple sentence structures with excellent word choices, rather than trying to weave something very complex for the sake of poetry.
- Spearchucker 9y agoI'm not sure it's necessarily "old school". It strikes me as self-aggrandising, and speaks of someone uncomfortable with their place in the world. Much as old money asks for the toilet, and new money asks for the rest room.
- pkkim 9y agoThe first passage is a weird mixed metaphor. I think the part before the semicolon is relatively straightforward. The force of mind is a plant (though, who ever heard of a plant thriving in adverse soil but not in a prosperous flower bed?). The part after the semicolon refers to the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from Hamlet, and now the mind is a person whose natural red-cheeked bravery and decisiveness have become pale because of the illness of money. It is bad writing.
- tcbawo 9y agoThe first passage describes toughness of spirit which is honed by adversity rather than prosperity. Now that we have the relative safety (status quo) and money, our toughness has given way to complacency.