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[agapetus]

Not a pictoblog, but it would probably belong in the WALKING HOME WITH... series. Today I walked home with Jeremy! We spotted gangsters loitering around in the kiddy park on our way home and proceeded to discuss park politics, gangster ethics, and the medical pitfalls of being a gangster.

"I think gangsters have to keep coming back to the park, you

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[gundamette]

You know Van? I don't think we've really actually "learned" how to write per se in our writing years in school. Granted, you had Demert--so your chances of actually "learning" something was probably more of an increase than mines.

I completely agree.

Writing is like creativity nowadays, especially in how our school hones that. You either can master it, or can't--because it's not as if the school is going to be critical about teaching it in value compared to judging it.

...Which is why you have a handful of illiterates and philistines who can't write a decent argument or even worse, present one. This of course, translates into "negligent 'capable figures' who can't defend themselves and usually have a skewed, condensed version of logic".

It's a sad world.

[agapetus]

Definitely. Writing is a form of expression and cannot be 'taught' or 'learned'. If one has nothing to express to begin with, how would one write anything worth reading? (/cough With the exception of Stephanie Meyer. She's an enigma to me. Worthless yet worth so much?)

I find the way we judge English to be very... ineffective. To put a standard on something so nebulous and subjective is just asking for trouble.

Presenting an argument is important, I agree. The right words will compliment a good argument. Then again, with logic... you know what they say: "Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about."

[gundamette]

Actually that's exactly why Stephenie Meyer is her own specimen. I've read her material--and frankly I can't see why she's a best selling phenomenon. The only benefit she's reaped to our world is to prove that the value of literature is dropping, and people no longer read for the sake of reading, but for the sake of a ridiculous fantasy.

The teen novel section in my opinion is a joke in itself. There are barely any good books there.

[agapetus]

As far as I know... none of the books in the teen novel section are good. (You're talking about Borders, right?)

I read one of the synopsis from the back of those rip-off vampire/gothic books. Basically about a girl whose life fails so bad because her mom is mean, her school is mean, her grades fail - or something along those lines; she finds a magic thingermabob that grants her wishes.

I was like... 'mean people' and you think THAT'S a bad life?