I think I speak for everybody when I say: PLEASE use paragraphs. It's a royal pain in the behind to rad 40 lines of closely spaced text. The "enter" key was invented for a reason.
For people who make long posts...
- Thread starter Argo
- Start date
Agreed. Paragraphs, proper punctuation, etc. will make me read your post instead of skipping skipping it in disgust.
Viper GTS
Viper GTS
Yeah... I read half of it and just though fvck it, I can't read this...
Everyone, please use paragraphs
The island of Levania is located fifty thousand German miles high up in the air. The journey to and from this island from our Earth is very seldom open; but when it is accessible, it is easy for our people. However, the trasnsportation of men, joined as it is to the greatest danger of life, is most difficult. We do not admit sedentary, corpulent or fastidious men into this retinue. We choose rather those who spend their time persistantly riding swift horses or who frequently sail to the Indies, accustomed to subsist on twice-baked bread, garlic, dried fish, and other unsavory dishes. There are dried up old women especially suited for our purpose. The reason for this is well known. From early childhood they are accustomed to riding goats, or on mantles, and to travel through narrow passes and through the immense expanse of the Earth. Although Germans are not suitable, we do not reject the dry bodies of Spaniards. The whole journey, far though it may be, is completed in four hours at most. Our departure time happens when we are busiest, before the Moon begins its eclipse in its eastern section. If the Moon becomes full while we are still on our way, our return journey is impossible. The occasion becomes so brief that we have few humans and not any other beings except the most helpful toward us. Forming a column we seize any man of this kind and all of us pushing upward raise him to the heights. The initial shock is the worst part of it for him, for he is spun upward as if by an explosion of gunpowder and he flies above the mountains and the seas. On that account he must be drugged with narcotics and opiates prior to his flight. His limbs must be carefully protected so they are not torn from him, body from legs, head from body and so that the recoil may not spread over into every member of his body. Then he will face new difficulties: intense cold and impaired respiration. These circumstances which are natural to spirits are applied by force to man. We go on our way placing moistened sponges to our nostrils. With the first section of the voyage complete, our conveyance becomes easier. Then we expose our bodies freely to the air and withdraw our hands. All these persons are gathered into a ball within themselves, by reason of pressure, a condition which we ourselves produce into its intended place by its own accord. This critical point is of little use to us spirits because it is excessively slow. Therefore, as I said, we accelerate by gravity and go in front of the man's body, lest by a very strong impact into the Moon he might suffer any harm. When the man awakes, he usually complains that all his members suffer an ineffable lassitude, from which, however he completely recovers when the effect of the drugs wears off, so that he can walk. Numerous other difficulties occur which would take too long to recount. Nothing happens to us that is entirely evil. How long those shadows of the Earth are which we inhabit on the Moon in a compact manner! When these men have reached Levania, we are at hand. They seem to be climbing from a ship on to land. There we speedily withdraw into the caves and gloomy places lest the Sun at present in the open but about to eclipse a little later from the pleasant resting place, casts us out and forces us to follow the departing shadow. Our ingenuity exercises itself in moments of decision. We join ourselves to the daemons of this province and a society begins when the Sun first begins to fail the locality. Gathered together in crowds we deviate from our course into the shadow. And if the shadow hits the Earth with its sharp point, which often happens, we shall fall heavily upon Earth and our fellow soldiers, for we are allowed no other result when men have witnessed the Sun's eclipse. From this it follows that eclipses of the Sun are dreaded. As a consequence, these comments shall be made about the journey into Levania. I shall speak about the shape itself of the province, beginning as do geographers with those things which happen to it from above. Even if the whole of Levania has the appearances of fixed stars in common with us, yet one observes very many movements and numbers of planets different from those which we see from Earth so that all their astronomy has another meaning. Just as geographers divide the Earth's globe into five zones due to celestial phenomena, so Levania consists of two hemispheres, the one of the Subvolvans and the other of the Privolvans. Of these two hemispheres, the Subvolvans always see their Volva, or our Earth, which to them is like our Moon, and the Privolvans are completely deprived of the sight of their Volva. The circle dividing their hemispheres, similar to our solstice's colure, passes through the poles of the world and is called a divisor. I shall explain first what is common to both hemispheres. All Levania suffers the same alternations of day and night as we do, but during the year they lack other annual changes. Throughout Levania its days are almost equal to its nights, except for the fact that the Privolvans each day is regularly
Good point!
Cheers!
Good point!
Cheers!
IOriginally posted by: Spooner
yeah, yakko, he's talking to you!
oh wait.....
will
try
harder
from
now
on.
minendo
Elite Member
- Aug 31, 2001
- 35,560
- 22
- 81
pyonirtriestobefunnybutinrealityheisanannoyanceOriginally posted by: pyonir
ithinksharkeepermadeaverygoodpointwhyshouldweusepunctuationwhentherearesomanysmartpeoplehere
thatcanusetheirintelligencetoreadthepostimnotagrammerjunkie
alliwanttodoisgetmypointacrossbtwvipergtsisapunkjustkiddingvipercauseiknowyouwontreadthis
The
notion
that
people
need
others
to
format
everything
inot
paragraphed
and
separated
segments
just
for
their
own
personal
convenience
and
just
because
they
lack
the
eye
coordination
to
read
a
solid
block
of
text,
doubtlessly
owing
to
the
fact
that
they
have
never
learned
to
read
books,
which
are
of
course
nothing
more
or
less
than
solid
blocks
of
text,
is
absurd
on
it's
face,
and
indicitive
of
the
personal
self-
centeredness
into
which
our
society
has
fallen.
notion
that
people
need
others
to
format
everything
inot
paragraphed
and
separated
segments
just
for
their
own
personal
convenience
and
just
because
they
lack
the
eye
coordination
to
read
a
solid
block
of
text,
doubtlessly
owing
to
the
fact
that
they
have
never
learned
to
read
books,
which
are
of
course
nothing
more
or
less
than
solid
blocks
of
text,
is
absurd
on
it's
face,
and
indicitive
of
the
personal
self-
centeredness
into
which
our
society
has
fallen.
pyonir
Lifer
- Dec 18, 2001
- 40,856
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- 126
Originally posted by: minendo
pyonirtriestobefunnybutinrealityheisanannoyanceOriginally posted by: pyonir
ithinksharkeepermadeaverygoodpointwhyshouldweusepunctuationwhentherearesomanysmartpeoplehere
thatcanusetheirintelligencetoreadthepostimnotagrammerjunkie
alliwanttodoisgetmypointacrossbtwvipergtsisapunkjustkiddingvipercauseiknowyouwontreadthis
andyourpointwouldbewhateveryoneknowsthiswaytostatetheobvious
Nice try, Skoorb, but if you're gonna quote that idiot, Moonbeam, you don't stand a chance. There isn't a book out there that's a BOOK, a genuine tome, that doesn't have paragraphs, solid blocks of test, twice the size of the ones being whined about here. The quest
isn't for indentation.
It's for separation.
isn't for indentation.
It's for separation.
Adul
Elite Member
FeathersMcGraw
Diamond Member
- Oct 17, 2001
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Adul, I'd have to admit, as long as I'm gonna admit to anything, that I don't read either one too good.
Humanity i love you
because you would rather black the boots of
success than enquire whose soul dangles from his
watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both
parties and because you
unflinchingly applaud all
songs containing the words country home and
mother when sung at the old howard
Humanity i love you because
when you're hard up you pawn your
intelligence to buy a drink and when
you're flush pride keeps
you from the pawn shops and
because you are continually committing
nuisances but more
especially in your own house
Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down
on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity
i hate you
If you so much as
think
I owe you a damn of courtesy
Keep reading
Cheers !
911paramedic
Diamond Member
- Jan 7, 2002
- 9,448
- 1
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Wow, Mwilding, that was powerful. I'm floating somewhere up near the ceiling and doubt I'll be back down all day. I guess sometimes for some people a single sentense can really do a number. Thanks
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
That is annoying too. Just copy one or two lines in your reply, not 10 posts please...
that looks cool.. hehe
Originally posted by: Frosty3799
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
That is annoying too. Just copy one or two lines in your reply, not 10 posts please...
that looks cool.. hehe
Interesting.
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