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People in 1882 must have been really patient. I was annoyed that I’ve spent 10 minutes reading a story that could have been conveyed in 5 sentences at most.
by layoutIfNeeded 6y ago
People in 1882 must have been really patient. I was annoyed that I’ve spent 10 minutes reading a story that could have been conveyed in 5 sentences at most.
- falcor84 6y agoPlease go ahead, it is in the public domain after all. Try to rephrase it in 5 sentences and see if people still share your version after more than a century.
- sp332 6y agoThey had fewer things competing for their attention. What were you going to do in those 10 extra minutes, refresh Twitter again?
- azhu 6y agoAgreed. At this point in 2020, this much text for this elementary of a morality problem is a waste. I was really hoping for something more earth shattering than how humans have a hard time finding the bounds between themselves and others.
- james-skemp 6y agoHaving read this in middle or high school (back in the 90s), and having picked up a copy of the book years later when I saw it at a Half Price Books, this comment makes me really sad. A 5 sentence version of this story would not have stayed with me the same way this did. Just like Aesop's Fables, or the Brothers Grimm, wouldn't have the impact on people/civilization in general if they had been just the moral of the story.