I promised Mich I'd finish reading my stuff for religion class, but this is just ridiculous. The author of this very boring manifesto on cosmology is very fond of using long, flowery words with no dictionary definitions. (Words like "hierophany," for example. WTF does that mean? Why will you not explain, O Crazy Writer?!)
But that's not the most annoying bit. Oh no, that honor goes to the author's apparent obsession with italics, especially italics that make no sense. I'm quite sure that I've gone through entire books that were effective, clear, and direct without using italics AT ALL. So why does this author feel the need to italicize not only random words, but entire sentences?! It's indescribably annoying. But, hey, maybe it's fun to do. Let's try it out, shall we?
Today is Tuesday. This morning I woke up at quarter of ten because I didn't have class until two in the afternoon. Thus, I got to sleep in (you know you're totally jealous). I went to the gym but I'm so incredibly out of shape from all the eating I did over break that I wussed out after twenty minutes on the bike. I took a shower and met my two favorite on-campus Michelles for lunch at Collis. At two I went to class. After, I just hung around at home.
See?! Isn't that ANNOYING?!?! The worst part is that I'm not even exaggerating. It's that bad.
But I still need to finish, as "excessive italics" is not a valid excuse for failing to do the reading.
Right?
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Wow, this reminds me of Expository Writing I class....expressing emotions when reading text, and then graphing it with x as each page, and y as the level of emotion. this doesn't really make sense hahaha i wonder how this got published. and i wonder if the author's writing style is found in other books. and i wonder why he (i'm assuming the person is a guy) is doing it.
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