Writing, when properly done, (as you can be sure that I make myself) is just a different way of talking: As anyone who knows what he's in good company, you dare to say anything - so no author, including the just boundaries of decorum and good manners, he wishes to think all: The truest respect which you can demonstrate the intelligence of the reader, is to make a friendly in half, and leave something to imagine, in turn, just like you.
For my part, I do not call to him compliments of this kind, and do everything in my power to keep occupied his imagination as mine.
Quote from "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" by Laurence Sterne, Volume 2, Chapter 9.
Never mind that it is objectively the only sentence that makes sense comprehensible only to first reading (I have to read each chapter twice because it is so complicated, and the punctuation is so bad that only the first reading is not enough to understand ... I wonder how the heck I'll give 'st'esame ...), it is a phrase that I liked a lot and that's exactly what I expect from any book: the right dose of descriptions but also leave room for imagination.
And this explains why in 1760 with words written in the second high school is not able to finish reading "The History" by Elsa Morante, if I read this sentence then maybe I'd be able to justify myself instead of taking the only two in Italian of my life (not knowing what was over, the prof I had not the least risky to read it). There are so many descriptions that becomes monotonous and you lose all the taste of reading. He might as well buy a photographic catalog of Rome the Fascist ...
For my part, I do not call to him compliments of this kind, and do everything in my power to keep occupied his imagination as mine.
Quote from "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" by Laurence Sterne, Volume 2, Chapter 9.
Never mind that it is objectively the only sentence that makes sense comprehensible only to first reading (I have to read each chapter twice because it is so complicated, and the punctuation is so bad that only the first reading is not enough to understand ... I wonder how the heck I'll give 'st'esame ...), it is a phrase that I liked a lot and that's exactly what I expect from any book: the right dose of descriptions but also leave room for imagination.
And this explains why in 1760 with words written in the second high school is not able to finish reading "The History" by Elsa Morante, if I read this sentence then maybe I'd be able to justify myself instead of taking the only two in Italian of my life (not knowing what was over, the prof I had not the least risky to read it). There are so many descriptions that becomes monotonous and you lose all the taste of reading. He might as well buy a photographic catalog of Rome the Fascist ...
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