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   From: no.spam@no.spam   
      
   On 9/2/2011 4:38 PM, Christopher Kreuzer wrote:   
      
   > Try writing in archaic style (like I did above). It is hard to do!   
   > Most people end up writing like Shakespeare, rather than Tolkien.   
      
   To write like Tolkien; that would indeed be a great talent.   
      
   But the price would be steep: losing my parents too soon; barred   
   for years from marrying my teenage girlfriend; months of trench   
   warfare with all its horrors; more months recovering from sickness,   
   then trying to raise a family during the Great Depression --   
   and then after all that, having to witness the Criminal Pride   
   of a defeated enemy Power I once faced in battle arising anew.   
      
   Somehow it all reminds me of the "gift" of Apollo to Orpheus.   
      
   SQ   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)