LI SNOWBIRD
09-24-2015, 09:47 AM
I am in the process of going back and reading books that i missed, being a Lit major, that I consider "classics" or worthwhile. i just took "The Strange Case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde" by Robert Lewis Stevenson out of the Mark Twain Library and read it.
I was also a Psych major and this work interested me from that point of view.
When a literary work contains one sentence that had 2 semi-colons and 4 commas you know it will be a labor. A sentence of 80+ words was common.
Luckily it was only 75 pages long. I enjoyed the novel but was turned off by the stilted syntax and overall dryness of the prose. On a psych level it was a clear Super Ego/Id conflict. It was ground breaking in it's time but it's use of language was off putting.
Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde" by Robert Lewis Stevenson out of the Mark Twain Library and read it.
I was also a Psych major and this work interested me from that point of view.
When a literary work contains one sentence that had 2 semi-colons and 4 commas you know it will be a labor. A sentence of 80+ words was common.
Luckily it was only 75 pages long. I enjoyed the novel but was turned off by the stilted syntax and overall dryness of the prose. On a psych level it was a clear Super Ego/Id conflict. It was ground breaking in it's time but it's use of language was off putting.