From: Damien R. Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 12 1998 - 13:01:56 MDT
On Aug 12, 7:45am, Sarah Marr wrote:
> At 04:49 12/08/98 -0700, Mark wrote:
> >I have to say that your writing style is incredibly hard to read; it seems
> >to be designed to hide meaning behind voluminous use of long words.
> OK. Not intentional. My writing style tends to depend on what I've been
> reading recently.
Heh. Reading Brust's Dumas imitations for the first time had a quite notable
effect on my writing for a while.
Reading Sarah's post required a bit of a gearshift, but was fun, and the
meaning was ultimately fairly clear and precise, not obscure. Enjoyable
complexity and precision: Very extropic, to submit to using the local
buzzwords.
-xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-)
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