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> If modern writers have such disrespect for their audience As opposed to whom, paid-by-the-word Dickens and his amazing menagerie of circumlocutions? ;-)
by klipt 12y ago
> If modern writers have such disrespect for their audience
As opposed to whom, paid-by-the-word Dickens and his amazing menagerie of circumlocutions? ;-)
- Schwolop 12y agoTouché!
- panglott 12y agoPerhaps, but the further back you go, the starker the shift in reading habits becomes. I skimmed this article in 5 minutes and probably won't remember it tomorrow. Compare two centuries ago, when the only books most people had were the Bible and Milton, and they memorized every word. Or three centuries before that, when the people who could read might have to travel across Europe to read a particular book, and might commit each page to a memory palace.