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Here's another piece of writing, from a very different author, with lots of capitals. Maybe you like it more? https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope

• inglor_cz 11mo ago
  I like Emily Dickinson, actually. Poetry works in a different way, though. The lines are short and your eyes won't struggle much with continuity. e.e.cummings eschewed capitalizations as well and his poetry is still easily readable (to me at least). A larger block of text is harder to parse without capitalizations. This is actually why they developed in the first place. Original Roman writing was very "blocky" and thus much harder to read, see for example this: https://share.google/EyVZfHb9NgIbtXlAl https://share.google/EyVZfHb9NgIbtXlAl It is a short text, but parsing it into individual words is quite a challenge.
  • skylurk 11mo ago
    Hmm I see your point, though to be fair, that Roman writing is also missing spacing and punctuation. My guess is the author knows what they are doing and is intentionally reinforcing the disoriented and unsettled feeling. Or, at least, is intentionally making no effort to mitigate it. (In many other posts, capitalisation rules are followed.)