| sundin13 said:
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Uhhh. what? Are you high?
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Hm... Twilight? I don't know...
| sundin13 said: (...), and you just choose to ignore the brilliant wordplay and dialogue and some of the best usage of iambic pentameter in literature, to suit your preconceived notions, then that is your fault alone. |
I haven't read the original, so it's possible that the translator wasn't skilled enough to transfer that to a different language. In any case, I judge books on the story it tells, whether or not it makes me think, whether I can identify with the characters, whether I care anout them... I indeed fail to see the subtleties of language. You can have a perfect technique, but if the story isn't interesting, it's wasted.
You aren't a perfect debater yourself, homeboy. Constant subjective opinions stated as fact, constant appeals to popularity or authority (which isn't that bad on the subject of art, though...), you can't avoid using personal attacks and you can't keep calm and rational. In other words, you take everything personally. Work on that,
| sundin13 said: You may continue with your lackadaisical debates and continue to make grand generalizations in the way that worst represents the truth, and I will just leave you with the opening lines of Romeo and Juliet (although I'm sure you will brush it off as just the old, dusty words of a man long dead): |
And I also leave you with a quote by Shakespeare:







