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What do you notice about this passage of text?; A game of sorts, I guess...
Topic Started: Sep 6 2007, 09:40 PM (161 Views)
akiratheoni
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If youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it practically; you wouldn’t constantly run across folks today who claim that “a child don’t know anything.”A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring out its purport.

Up to about its primary school days a child thinks, naturally, only of play. But many a form of play contains disciplinary factors. “You can’t do this,” or “that puts you out,” shows a child that it must think, practically or fail. Now, if, throughout childhood, a brain has no opposition, it is plain that it will attain a position of “status quo,” as with our ordinary animals. Man knows not why a cow, dog or lion was not born with a brain on a par with ours; why such animals cannot add, subtract, or obtain from books and schooling, that paramount position which Man holds today.

But a human brain is not in that class. Constantly throbbing and pulsating, it rapidly forms opinions; attaining an ability of its own; a fact which is startlingly shown by an occasional child “prodigy” in music or school work. And as, with our dumb animals, a child’s inability convincingly to impart its thoughts to us, should not class it as ignorant.

Upon this basis I am going to show you how a bunch of bright young folks did find a champion; a man with boys and girls of his own; a man of so dominating and happy individuality that Youth is drawn to him as is a fly to a sugar bowl. It is a story about a small town. It is not a gossipy yarn; nor is it a dry, monotonous account, full of such customary “fill-ins” as “romantic moonlight casting murky shadows down a long, winding country road.” Nor will it say anything about tinklings lulling distant folds; robins carolling at twilight, nor any “warm glow of lamplight” from a cabin window. No. It is an account of up-and-doing activity; a vivid portrayal of Youth as it is today; and a practical discarding of that worn-out notion that “a child don’t know anything.”


Read it CAREFULLY. If you can get it, you win the prize. What the prize is, I don't know. But you'll have my props.

So yeah, what do you notice about this passage of text? Again, you'll need to read it CAREFULLY.
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What did I notice?

Well ... it's about children ...
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posiden5665
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someone actually paid attention in grammar class?
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Sunday
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you cleverly had me read that twice looking for something.
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akiratheoni
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Actually guys read it again. There is no letter E in the whole passage.

This is the first paragraph of a 50,000 word novel with no letter E.

it's called The Gadsby.

http://www.spinelessbooks.com/gadsby/
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That's pretty impressive to be able to right that much without using a word that has E in it. Kinda pointless but still cool xD
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Sep 7 2007, 08:51 PM
That's pretty impressive to be able to right that much without using a word that has E in it. Kinda pointless but still cool xD

Pointless? Wouldn't it describe how awesome you are at writing? Think about it... the most common words are out of your disposal... 'the' 'are' 'we' and almost all past tense words are no-no's.
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Now that you mention it i do see that but it looks like the whole thing is out of context, and messed up and there are a lot of errors in it. Thats the only thing aside from the "no letter 'E'" in the passage that caught my eye.
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Sep 7 2007, 09:50 PM
Now that you mention it i do see that but it looks like the whole thing is out of context, and messed up and there are a lot of errors in it. Thats the only thing aside from the "no letter 'E'" in the passage that caught my eye.

Errors? As in how? If you mean that the words are kind of awkward, don't worry, that's a part of the writing style that the author is trying to convey. It's going to sound awkward anyway, because it obviously can't use the letter e.
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