sooooo PATHETIC!!!! i just can't understand why writers and poets have
to use deep words,when in fact they can just use simple words so
as not to give headaches and nosebleed to their readers!! uuugghhh!
sooooo PATHETIC!!!! i just can't understand why writers and poets have
to use deep words,when in fact they can just use simple words so
as not to give headaches and nosebleed to their readers!! uuugghhh!
I don't understand why anyone would waste their time registering at a literature forum if they didn't appreciate and like literature.
I think I just got a nosebleed reading this thread
"But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
"In flames and torment?""Oh, yes, I do."
"That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said."Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
"Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.
Agreed, Haunted and I think I'm getting a headache, too, reading such a non-sensible thread.
I agree with Homers child, why come on a literature forum if you find authors or literature such a health hazzard, walangkwentatoh?
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Another thought: If literature and poetry is not to your liking, may I suggest reading a plumber's manual?
"But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
"In flames and torment?""Oh, yes, I do."
"That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said."Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
"Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.
Just curious now; why did you put this thread under O'Henry?
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I haven't read O. Henry (one of many startling omissions I find myself guilty of. Well, I don't feel guilty exactly, but...).
Maybe this is a student, and the story had vocab some students were just bound to get distracted by? I mean, at that point, our tender concerns as literature aficianados (O. Henry-vets and virgins alike) wouldn't really be expected by the needlessly-strangled imagination of one who is apparently willing to engage so much more in the tales they find, and are given.
I guess if your nose is actually bleeding, maybe you've got to punch back somehow.
Try using a dictionary. This may seem laborious but is weel worth the effort in the long run.
Makes me think of the days when I first started reading Nietzsche and pretty much had a dictionary hand-in-hand with Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Anyway, to the thread starter; I think it best if you stop reading literature all together. I'm sorry but I don't know what else to say. I can totally understand being a bit overwhelmed by unfamiliar words, especially if your new to reading classics. But if you're that fustrated and impatient, then don't bother, there's plenty of other things you could be enjoying. I found reading writers like Joyce or Nietzsche hard, but I found it kind of a fun challenge. But hey, that's not for everybody.
I mean, if you think O. Henry's hard. . . . .
The Moments of Dominion
That happen on the Soul
And leave it with a Discontent
Too exquisite — to tell —
-Emily Dickinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVW8GCnr9-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGIvr6WVw4
well, you have a point there, but in, language, you make your writing beautiful using elegant languuage
so basically, you got an account on here to criticizes the stories?