Nov 21, 2024
I wrote the worst paragraph today intentionally to fuck with my friends. It’s the kind of monstrosity you typically only see in papers published in academic journals.
#I’m talking jargon#long complicated sentences#parts in parentheses that shouldn’t be included#lists of things#dates and events nobody knows#Latin#acronyms never explained#the paragraph is way too long#way too dense#it reads like David Foster Wallace when he was mocking academic writing#it’s beautifully awful#it’s simultaneously the worst thing I’ve written as a professional#but it’s also my masterpiece#my friends described it as ‘exhausting’#and ‘dense to the point of incomprehension’#and ‘an affront to god’