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When is wordy just too wordy?
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Paynesgrey on June 22, 2011, 02:05:07 AM ---I'm afraid that link seems to be kaput. Do you have another link to the same material?
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No, but it's working fine for me now.
Paynesgrey:
Shiney. I'll try it again later tonight.
Paynesgrey:
Works now. That blog has about 31 flavors of awesome. The perverse thing is I didn't really need to shift mental gears to understand it. Don't know if that says something bad about my brain, or something good about the writer. Probably both.
meg_evonne:
Love the new sig, Paynes!
OZ:
I'm coming into this late but I have to tag in so I can keep up with this thread. I never had much trouble with Dumas but I admit that Victor Hugo had me gnashing my teeth at times in Les Miserables when he would, for instance, spend multiple chapters describing exactly what a "guttersnipe" is only to say that the boy the story was about was not a true guttersnipe because his heart was "absolutely gloomy and void." He gave a long and detailed description of the Battle of Waterloo only to introduce a character wandering on the battlefield after the battle was over. I guess when you're paid by the word you do what is necessary to maximise your earnings.
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