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As Norm implies, it is difficult, if not impossible, to convey "sensitivity" when confronted by isotropic sobbing. The ubiquitous trend of ever more extravagant exaggeration has crescendoed to a frequency compression wherein the spectrum of nuance is subsumed by ALL CAPS, all bold, all italics, all underlined, ALL THE TIME WITH MULTIPLE EXCLAMATIONS!!!
The communication-spin quantum number has become the dominant characteristic of all forms of dialog. We have constructed a modern-day Tower of Babble, whose chaotic effect derives not from a plethora of dialects, but rather a resonance peak on the scale of decibels. In short, everyone is shouting and nobody hears. Not to put too fine a point on it, it behooves us to decompress and, simultaneously, to solve our global energy crisis.
I venture to suggest, therefore, that Appleyard's tale of copious sobbing and weeping is, rather, a message to his readers about the sensitivity of his soul - that he should entertain feelings of that sort and not those suitable to a coarse brute.Indeed.
As Norm implies, it is difficult, if not impossible, to convey "sensitivity" when confronted by isotropic sobbing. The ubiquitous trend of ever more extravagant exaggeration has crescendoed to a frequency compression wherein the spectrum of nuance is subsumed by ALL CAPS, all bold, all italics, all underlined, ALL THE TIME WITH MULTIPLE EXCLAMATIONS!!!
The communication-spin quantum number has become the dominant characteristic of all forms of dialog. We have constructed a modern-day Tower of Babble, whose chaotic effect derives not from a plethora of dialects, but rather a resonance peak on the scale of decibels. In short, everyone is shouting and nobody hears. Not to put too fine a point on it, it behooves us to decompress and, simultaneously, to solve our global energy crisis.
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