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thundara  ·  3474 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Book has the Most Page-for-Page Wisdom?

Really? It sounds like it might if it were to flow off the tongue: maybe with many qualifications, but always directing towards some insight. It sounds quite fluid and poetic when read aloud!

I was going to recommend you the grand inquisitor passage, but its best sections are wrapped up in walls of text. Unfortunately the free audio recordings of the chapter I found all sucked, but maybe this might be a decent distraction when you have some time?





veen  ·  3474 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it's mainly in the unusual verb placement, combined with really long sentences. Not that it isn't interesting, it's just far more mental effort to both keep track of what is going on in a sentence and retain all the information that it tries to convey - in another language.