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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

The book I am reading

would be better if it did not have sentences like this, "With this dichotomy between the spirits that move the body and a prophylactic 'reasoning', we come to an issue we touched on in the last chapter, the destruction of the esemplastic powers by an overvaluation of analytic cogniton and the related destruction of gift exchange by the hegemony of the market."

I mean, really, is that necessary or could you simply learn to write.
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12 comments:

  1. PicklePitsMay 3, 2011 at 5:43:00 AM PDT

    Okay, so that dude has GOT to break away from the thesaurus. I do hope that this was an assigned reading and not a free choice. Yikes.

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  2. AnonymousMay 3, 2011 at 7:00:00 AM PDT

    sounds like a bed time story.
    *snoooore*.
    "Goldilock and the Thesosaurus"?

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  3. mmicheleMay 3, 2011 at 7:45:00 AM PDT

    and s/he meant to say...?

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  4. Boo and TrevMay 3, 2011 at 8:26:00 AM PDT

    Blimey, what book is that? I think I need to avoid it.

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  5. HelenMay 3, 2011 at 11:04:00 AM PDT

    Ugh

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  6. JanMay 3, 2011 at 1:08:00 PM PDT

    Give it up.

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  7. AnonymousMay 3, 2011 at 2:04:00 PM PDT

    Anybody that convoluted cannot possibly have opinions worth listening to
    Sea Dog

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  8. Tiffany at PatheyaMay 3, 2011 at 3:00:00 PM PDT

    ha ha ha hahahahahahahahhah

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  9. orenetaMay 4, 2011 at 5:44:00 AM PDT

    Quite.

    It is voluntary, I must be nuts....though I should have known when I found out that it is a book that Atwood is recommending that EVERYONE read....

    There are elements in it that are more than worth it, but it does read just a weeeee bit too academic, and not enough like life.

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  10. J.G.May 5, 2011 at 5:48:00 AM PDT

    Silly me. I thought writing was about communicating your ideas to the reader. Clearly I am missing something!

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  11. kateMay 5, 2011 at 8:53:00 AM PDT

    Yikes! But at least there aren't in-text citations every fourth word!

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  12. orenetaMay 5, 2011 at 1:55:00 PM PDT

    Oh my goodness, JG, what were you thinking!!!!

    Kate...there is that to be said for it anyway...bet you've been reading all to much of this kind of stuff, no?

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