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> About halfway to the lot, a ribbon of cobalt rises on the horizon; when it’s cloudy, a common occurrence in the mid-Atlantic, the darkness stays pure. The sp
by pault 8y ago
> About halfway to the lot, a ribbon of cobalt rises on the horizon; when it’s cloudy, a common occurrence in the mid-Atlantic, the darkness stays pure. The spectrum of color will change with the seasons, but now it is winter and the sun comes slowly, if it appears at all.
Ugh, I'm so sick of these flowery long form articles. I had to scan through ten long paragraphs just to find what the article is about.
- driverdan 8y agoI read that first sentence, saw how long the scroll bar was, and clicked back. I like long form but not with this junk wasting space.
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- ryanwaggoner 8y agoI think it would be reasonable to include a note in the HN guidelines about not complaining about "magazine-style" writing like this. I see it over and over here, and it's really boring and trite at this point. Many people don't like more expressive forms of writing, especially the HN crowd, but it's a legitimate style which many people enjoy. Why can't people just ignore (or even flag) and move on? Actually, maybe the guidelines do eschew this complaint: Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
- mediocrejoker 8y agoInstead of clicking back I just started scanning the start of each paragraph until I found the one that would have been the intro in a news-style article and then I realized that the author had helpfully provided a demarcation using asterisks. That being said after explaining that he was groomed early for academia but then fired, he sort of wanders off again before really explaining how/why and that was where I gave up.
- josephpmay 8y agoI agree about long-form articles, but this isn’t an article, it’s a personal essay.