On 12/6/2010 9:36 PM, nemesis wrote:
> Patrick Elliott<sel### [at] npgcablecom>  wrote:
>> The best of the "classics", like Hemingway, spent 10
>> pages describing drapes billowing in the wind. You could SDL the damn
>> things in less lines than it took for the man to describe one damn room.
>> The actual book, if you removed all that stuff, would have been 2 more
>> pages. lol
>
> Now you're being quite unfair.  "The old man and the sea" I have in high regard.
>   Behind all those vivid fisherman daily duties descriptions lies really an
> allegory for life itself, a bold and dramatic one.
>
> I like structures, textures, carefully plotted details.  The beauty of it all
> may even surpass any story or melody alone for me.  Which is why I love dense
> literature as "Swann's Way" or thick contrapuntal Bach fugues.
>
> Much of today's artworks are much too plain and shallow in their attempt to
> quickly grab the short span attentions of today...
>
>
Well, maybe a "bit" unfair. But there is a limit, and a lot of the stuff 
they insist you read ends up making you go, "Uh.. I read something 
better 6 times last week (can go through a 400 page book on like 8-9 
hours)." Its sort of like listening to Christmas songs. A few, isn't too 
bad, a lot, starts to get annoying, if you know how many had their 
melodies "stolen" from earlier, often better, works (heh, its religious 
music, profound, never mind telling more than one story, isn't exactly 
their forte..), it goes from annoying to mind numbing. Yeah, Hemingway 
would have done damn well as a FX artist, not so much writing scripts. 
Some others, like Clemens, are readable, even if a bit out of date. 
Shakespeare.. if you can get past the odd old english, great, but the 
odds of *ever* seeing that in school, unless its college, isn't real 
high. Most of it, was just dreadful.

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