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Just a thought: if said work is of substantial length then you have enough context/space to express all the subtleties by other means. In case of the message li
by rimantas 17y ago
Just a thought: if said work is of substantial length then you have enough context/space to express all the subtleties by other means. In case of the message limited to 140 characters or email one-liner you need some crutches to the same. Are we trading 5 lines of email for one ":)"?
- joe_the_user 17y agoWell, there's the works of Sapho and Haiku as example of evocative short works. It does take effort to produce such things. And even then they require some cultural context.
- d0mine 17y agoA counter-example in six words: For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. http://www.litkicks.com/FlashFiction/ http://www.litkicks.com/FlashFiction/ See, no emoticons :)
- billswift 17y agoThat sort of works as fiction, in part because it is so ambiguous - it could be anything from a tragedy to a farce.