This seems like it belongs in the Log Of Anomalous Items if anything.
If you don't understand, you don't need to.
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I feel "cellular scale" should be "microscopic scale." We could measure the letters at this time.
This is really confusingly described. Does it add to the story when you read it? If so, why is it said to shrink?
Because it doesn't add pages. It's the text that shrinks.
Hmm. I'm not sure if "text" should be changed to "writing" to clarify (because text can also mean "the entire work"), or if I just really failed my understanding roll.
It's a book that theoretically contains a narrative description of every conceivable facet of reality, all mysteriously revolving around an archetypal goddess of destruction's impending wrath. If you got that you're good.
Nope. Didn't get that at all.
I got "writer/stalker traps himself and his target in a book, then goes crazy when she still rejects him in his perfect world". Which I actually liked enough to go from downvote to no vote.
sometimes I even wonder why you guys don't like it when writers are too on the nose.
Personally, I like detail and thorough examination.
To take somewhat of a political stance with my voting, I am neutral voting with the hopes of changing that to an upvote if this is polished a bit. Ordinarily, I will downvote on the basis of flawed execution (which is flawed writing), but this article is exactly the kind of thing I want to see on the site when it comes to the portrayal of art. It's odd, but there are enough threads going throughout it that it doesn't come across as weird for the sake of weird.
There are some problems that prevent me from enjoying it as much as I could be, however:
- The addendum doesn't need to be collapsed, IMO. The article is short enough that I think you can just have it there without running afoul of the Wall of Text contingent1.
- Why is the title of the book redacted? Am I missing something?
- The second paragraph of the description could use tightening. I would couch the description of the book's literary style a bit; I'm all for the Foundation having literary experts on hand, I really am, but the description of it being an amalgam of these specific styles is a little too cut-and-dry. I also think you need to clarify the "30 minutes of inactivity" part. I had to read it a couple of times to figure out that that meant 30 minutes of not being read by someone.
- "Researchers have no reason to presume the theoretical limit of SCP-2811 is not infinite." This sentence is a little clunky. I think you could get away with "There is no theoretical limit to the amount of text that SCP-2811 may contain" or something.
- Clarify the part about how the additions affect the overall narrative; I'm not quite sure what exactly you're getting at.
- Not sure why the blackboxes in the addendum are necessary.
I dislike the act of holding votes hostage to personal preference, but I think that the concerns I've outlined above are probably shared by enough people that it would likely improve the article for people other than me. With some work, I will enthusiastically support this article. The concept is intriguing to me.
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1. Of which I am occasionally a member.
Updated per your suggestions. The title is redacted because it is "[name of the woman], blue", and I just wanted to give it a bit of mystery.
"Acquirement" and "procural" are both technically words, and perhaps this is only a dialect issue, but reading them in context was like smacking my brain's funny bone. I'd prefer "acquisition" and "procurement".
In the second Development, the phrase "subsequently which" should probably be either "subsequently to which", or, better yet, just "subsequently,".
Really neat skip idea, and mostly good execution - I just think there's a couple of phrasing wrinkles to iron still. Maybe just read it out loud once or twice to catch them.
Upon discovery the original narrative of SCP-2811 was written in an amalgam of different literary elements, including those of romantic, classical, and post-modern styles. The story follows a despondent writer's obsession with a woman he meets after his relocation to Paris. When the individual assigned to reading SCP-2811 resumed reading the following day, researchers found the text had shrunk to accommodate new passages of varied length.
How did the Foundation determine this was anomalous to begin with? It sounds like it was held by the Foundation before the added passages, at which point it was just an inconsistent book.
I can swear that my copy of Thus spoke Zaratustra did the same thing, you read all day long and the next morning you discovered you hadn't even finished a page. It was torture.
Upvoted for reminding me that even if my life is not going quite as I would like it to, at least I finished that damn book.
the Book of Sand meets early 20th c Modernists & their spiralling, exuberant love of life & all it contains - this is a real underrated gem. like Kalinin above mentioned, this is exactly the kind of treatment art deserves from the unreal. unreserved ++1
there's a quiet, sombre tone to this article which i love. how the ending shifts from the aftermath of a suicide to the daily thoughts of a helicopter pilot leaves me with an unexplainable empty feeling, but in a good way, if that makes sense. +1
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