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In reply to the discussion: Reporter For 'Vice' Reportedly 'Taken' By Pro-Russian Militia In Ukraine [View all]ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)succinctness of thought losing beauty. Whatever Juliet said, had what she said been voiced too concisely the beauty of the message would have been lost irrespective of what the exact message was. Contrast: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..." with "Late at night while particularly tired, I thought about something...". No matter what Poe was saying, had he said it using the second sentence, the beauty of expression would have been lost. I don't equate in the slightest the facility of 9th grade English with your ascertaining of 'you "don't express" words'. What we have here is "knowledge confused with intelligence", which incidentally was an essay written by someone famous long ago whose name escapes me. Shakespeare never came anywhere near 9th grade English...thank God. This is something more left to editorial writers in the Washington Post.