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When was the last time you read something longer than a tweet?
by sonthonax 7y ago
When was the last time you read something longer than a tweet?
- bena 7y agoIt's over 60,000 characters and rambles
- tengbretson 7y agoLength has literally nothing to do with it. It's a matter of give and take, and politeness. If there's thirty minutes of content I'm happy to commit my thirty minutes of reading. If you have five minutes of content in thirty minutes of text you're just being rude.
- jvagner 7y agoI want to think it's about "show, don't tell" but I gave up on this article, too..
- theobeers 7y agoThis essay is not well written enough to justify its dilatory nature.
- ggggtez 7y agoThe author says "this story isn't about me" and yet spends 10 paragraphs telling a personal anecdote. Who said the problem at Yale is free speech? Is the audience supposed to know what he's talking about? I may never know because I too gave up.
- heavenlyblue 7y agoWell, the author is a). she, and b). she tells a personal anecdote because she's about to write an article about her own experience at Yale. So obviously she needs to present her bio in order to express the position from which she's seeing Yale.
- buboard 7y agoprose is pleasant when it's good