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by greekrich92 82 days ago
Moby Dick is too hard to read. They should make it shorter with a limited vocabulary.
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I kinda get where you're trying to go, but is Moby Dick style writing the best way to convey information?

That is, prose is good for entertainment, but less so for conveying information, even less so for exactness.

Point being that things of high quality that are enriching sometimes require an investment