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Comment by jrockway | Hacker News Reader

I wrote a short story about this as an HN comment over the weekend. It got downvoted to 0 and someone replied asking me if I was on drugs. (I guess drugs make you write long paragraphs? I can do that without any assistance, it turns out.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29858533

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That isn't a long paragraph. That is a formidable wall of text.

It's ok, but it's no Victor Hugo https://bookstr.com/article/the-longest-sentence-that-victor...

My goodness that was a joy to read aloud. Thank you.

That's not even an essay, that's just a bunch of descriptive clauses, an overabundance of semicolons.

I'm sorry but you need to learn how to format text into paragraphs if you expect people to read that. Just honest advice.

I mean, it should really be one sentence. There shouldn't be any pauses to think about how you got from the previous fragment to the next. It just keeps going; you start with a requirement about what camera to buy and you end up airlifting someone to the hospital, and that's just how the economy works.

It is clearly not what the weekend HN audience wants (all good ideas fit into 140 characters!), but I had fun writing it.

I found it entertaining enough that I went looking for more :)

I had fun reading it! I get the criticism but it's actually pretty entertaining and very relevant.

That was an enjoyable read... that would have been more enjoyable with about 15 more line breaks :-)

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