A
Better Example of
Bad Writing
A ray of inspirational light of not inconsiderable mind-illuminating powers changed its orbit to come in contact with me this morning. And the said ray resumed its orbit leaving me with a question. Why must we work at writing lucid, clear, simple and well laid out paragraphs or sentences? Could not a discerning and aspiring writer promenade towards and into the realm of greater glory by demonstrating an undisputable ability to write complicated, unclear and hard-as-nails-to-fathom verse? What?
Soon, recursive emotions such as guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific exultation, superstition, and other various and spurious feelings were dancing their way into my vulnerable positioned arterial canals. Stereotypes and archetypes, classifications and categorizations leaped against each other screaming cold bloody murder. A desperate effort to formally normalize my psyche suffered a bitter defeat. The disturbances induced by mental dialogue left me an irrational fool suffering from delusions and spewing out sentences which violated the rational, enlightened ideals of perfect verse. I was hardly a shadow of my former self.
While the desire to excel at this Orwellian endeavor struggled on against the symbolic chains of traditional thoughts which shackled me to the slavish, Victorian ideals I was not unlike that great man - Alexander the Great - who straddled, strangled and conquered most of the rocky mass that orbits our yellow, life giving and hydrogen burning star which we not without some affection call the Sun.
Even as my stirring soul urged me on towards a quest that surely must have tormented spirits of all great men and women before my time, I dedicated myself to perform a notable deed albeit with some imaginary totality.
Here now lies the sampling of what yours truly has become an adept at in no time.
“On any given day, when any casual, neutral observer with a scientific bent of mind positions a magnifying glass over the modern mammal, the incorrigible homosapien, in an all too noble quest to identify the qualities which differentiate our thinking species from the unthinking ones, the process of discernment becomes imbued with the negative trajectory our race has pursued throughout its recorded and verifiable history.”
