Re:A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection
by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:26AM
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>No novel is allowed to lollygag around the point its trying to achieve in the way these articles flagrantly waste your time.
With barely less than a second's though: Watership Down, a hugely popular novel in the 1970s, spends untold amounts of text/paper immersed in detailed descriptions of the flora that the characters are moving through or eating.
Why not just say "I don't enjoy this style of writing", rather than trying to come up with some supposedly objective metrics for how other people should write?
Re:A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection
by dredmorbius on Friday May 21, 2021 @12:55PM
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There is lollygagging in irrelevancies, and luxuriating in details.
The distinction can be quite arbitrary, but it usually does stand out.
Herman Melville and Neal Stephenson also come to mind. In nonfiction, John McFee.
No novel is allowed to lollygag around the point its trying to achieve in the way these articles flagrantly waste your time.
It's like someone misunderstood that the act of moving your eyes along the page is not interesting in and of itself.