Re: guardate come sono veloce a rispondere a tommy...
- From: Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono <_lano_@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lano666@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:41:40 +0100
"Orphen" <dragoon10@xxxxxxxxx> :
> Ribadisco, almeno per quanto mi riguarda, che non ho problemi di
> lunghezza,
citazione in inglese ma ne vale, mi fa rigirare per terra dalle risate
rotolando sul Gatto ^___^
Well, anyway, I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I
realized that like most books, it had too many words. The plot was the
same one that all James Bond books have: An evil person tries to blow up
the world, but James Bond kills him and his henchmen and makes love to
several attractive women. There, that's it: 24 words. But the guy who
wrote the book took*thousands* of words to say it.
Or consider "The Brothers Karamazov", by the famous Russian alcoholic
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It's about these two brothers who kill their father.
Or maybe only one of them kills the father. It's impossible to tell
because what they mostly do is talk for nearly a thousand pages. If all
Russians talk as much as the Karamazovs did, I don't see how they found
time to become a major world power.
I'm told that Dostoyevsky wrote "The Brothers Karamazov" to raise
the question of whether there is a God. So why didn't he just come right
out and say: "Is there a God? It sure beats the heck out of me."
Other famous works could easily have been summarized in a few words:
* "Moby Dick" - Don't mess around with large whales because they symbolize
nature and will kill you.
* "A Tale of Two Cities" - French people are crazy.
- Dave Barry
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