@ossobuco,
ossobuco wrote:David, you are getting back to the graphic pursuit of truth
with big letters and a lot of colors.
I like the way u put that, Osso.
(
but note that I have not used any graphs)
ossobuco wrote:You had cut a lot of that out for a while.
That all doesn't help make a point and can drive some of us away, me, for example.
Well, one of the operative considerations
was expression of
CHRISTMAS; I wanted to get in
red and
green. That is my modest effort to fight
against the politically correct n multicultural assassination of
Christmas. That was a big part of it.
ossobuco wrote:I know it's fun, but can't you make some art with it,
or poetry instead of investing every comment with its graphic possibilities?
I need to get hit in the head with an artistic inspiration, to create art.
Poetry does not come to me naturally;
maybe 1ce or 2ice in my lifetime.
Originally (b4 I got any complaints) I thought that it woud help
to make my writing easier to understand. In my mind, it was sort
of a poetry integrated with the prose text, explaining some of
my feeling about it, at least as to erecting a hierarchy of values,
as to which ideas were more important than others,
the way an orator raises or lowers, or intones his voice.
It was a gesture toward compensating for the impossibility
of doing that in writing; as u know, my efforts were not very popular.
I wonder whether my writing 'd have been better received
if my substantive philosophy were the same as those who object.
Maybe if I had said:
" vote
AGAINST ` W " in 2000
( a question of whose ox is Gored )
in big fonts with bold colors that 'd have been better received.
I dunno. I 'd like to read people 's writing who did it molding
n shaping color and font size to express different concepts.
I don 't know of anyone else who does it.
Perhaps somewhat in furtherance of this principle,
when I was in law school, I read judicial holdings
and statutes thru the first time coloring them up
in a hierarchy of different colors
and marked with a hierarchy of different symbols
to indicate the relative weight of a particular point.
I rested for a few hours, then re-read them,
taking full advantage of my established coding.
(That was much faster.)
After another rest, I repeated the process,
thru which (with well established recognition in my mind)
my study went thru like lightning.
I was pleased with the grades that I received
from this study method. I thawt it helped.
If I had to return to school, I 'd apply that method of study.
ANYWAY, rest assured that I do not intend to re-instate
my old unlimited creative use of font sizes n colors.
Guys complained that I was giving headaches.
1 or 2 guys claimed that I was driving them blind.
David
