nothing wrong is there methinks betimes with concepts woven long ago by old billy ....but some fools just dont get the point. i think the stories, plots, ideas, concepts are all fine and interesting, but the last time i read anything by shakespeare [about 4-5 years ago] this was my experience:
read a paragraph fine,read the next..fine come acrross a convoluted back to front section which took four times as long to read and untangle before i could re-read it intelligably and then move on again.
when this happens every 4 or 5 paragraphs it infuriating.
its not a matter of intelligence or attention span ... its that the reading is such a jagged and bumpy ride with lots of halts and pauses to untangle the sentences that it becomes an altogether dreary and tedious experience.
im sure that to shakespeare contemporaries it was a sublime thing a joy to read and wonderful language to savour......but we are living centuries later when the very structure of sentences is different.
2006-09-03
02:43:04
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