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Originally Posted by Faust Iamnot
Of course I didn't write it... 
How is it terrible? Are you objecting on a moral basis or something? Did you skim the selections or read them? I'm actually curious - what don't you like about it?
(I think this be from the 19th century, by the way, for everyone's knowledge) |
I am objecting on a literary basis. There is a flourish of flowery language, but there isn't any deeper meaning behind these little fables. I read the ones you pasted in here and was dissappointed. Usually I love this type of writing, but here it has fallen flat.
The moral comes off as contrived, not witty, and fairly nonsensical in some of them (or not fitting the fable). With a good fable, the moral should flow naturally from the plot so you really don't even have to have the part at the end where you tell it explicitly. If not, the connection between the moral and the fable is broken and it turns out to be just a couple sentences about talking animals.