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But the article submitted is in no way literature. It'd be one thing if the disjointed, rambling style served the content... but in this context, such a writing
by andolanra 13y ago
But the article submitted is in no way literature. It'd be one thing if the disjointed, rambling style served the content... but in this context, such a writing style is unnecessary at best and distracting at worst. Rhyming couplets in dactylic hexameter are similarly beautiful and 'literary', but that doesn't make them an appropriate vehicle for long-form essays, as well.
And frankly, the style isn't very good to begin with. It feels inflated and cloying, like a freshman essay in strong need of an editor. But even if it were an exemplar of its style, I'd still hold it to be unnecessary here.
- cpncrunch 13y agoI'm confused as to why you think a "disjointed, rambling style" is out of context when that is precisely how Dave's personality would be described.
- andolanra 13y agoThe subheading of the article tells us, "This Man Moved to a Desert Island in Order to Vanish. Here's What Happened." Assuming that the point of the article is to tell us what happened, then the writing style is extraneous, regardless of whether the man in question acts similarly. If the article said, "Here's what it's like to talk to Dave," then the writing style would be more appropriate. As it is, it gets in the way of finding out "what happened." Note that, say, A Beautiful Mind was not written in the form of a schizophrenic's paranoid ramblings, no matter how much that would reflect John Nash's personality during segments of the book.