And now for a moment of abuse
From Poingferret's blog:
The trio, on the other hand, were able to instill the aforementioned fear by pointing out a beautiful girl apparently playing pool by herself, then encouraging me to go and offer the similarity that we were both carbon-based life forms. More often than not, her boyfriend would be large enough to comfortably hide a morbidly obese moose behind, perhaps using an extraneous pool table leg as a toothpick.
Chris, I know it made sense in your head. But it's the text equivalent of that Great White fire in Warwick, I swear to Christ. I've read this graf at least a half a dozen times, and each time, about half way through, my visual cortex is filled with horrible images. Car wrecks. Planes smashing into the ground. Mass graves filled with bodies. Really. This is one of the most wretched bits of prose I've read in quite some time. Kudos, you gimp, you've reduced me to sounding like you.
Comments
That's nothing compared to this one:There is an astonishing lack of crazed serial killers in this city, especially ones who will break into your home, declare themselves the queen of penguins and promptly reduce you to a fine red goo.
I was airsick before I got to the period.
Posted by: Corey Tamas | August 5, 2003 12:42 PM
Is it a bad sign that I read that quote for comprehension instead of for readability?
Seriously, I'd like to know. I'm going back to school in a few weeks and I need to know what mindset I'm in.
Posted by: Dan Daranciang | August 6, 2003 07:23 PM
Dan:
Given that the quote was equally incomprehensible and unreadable, I'd say you're probably doing all right.
Posted by: Peter Cohen | August 6, 2003 09:25 PM