Wednesday, March 14, 2012

High Style

"Nobody likes science. You can tell by the fact that they teach it in school. There aren't any high school courses in pizza, pot smoking or car chases." - Joel Stein 2009

Look at that crescendo of syntactic complexity.  You have the subject-verb-object simplicity, then the same formula with a bit more, and the wow! look at that comma.  Should there be another though? Oh E.B. White help me! Truss? Anyone!?  Really though who cares, we all know it doesn't matter.  I like the low-style, straight to the point period-ness, and the subject matter.  Somebody probably like science, but EVERYBODY likes to smoke pot, eat pizza, and lead a car chase!  What if we Adios-panned it:

Nobody likes science, you can tell by the fact they teach it in school, there aren't any high school school courses in pizza...

Doesn't seem to be right... but I think it could be done this way.  I think the freighting idea is more at work.  Science sucks - here's how you know - here's how you really know.  Yes?

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