Brace yourself for a storm of criticism. Today’s ConWorkShop theme is Literature. Contemporary literature is always of much worse quality than the revered classics of yesteryear. This could not possibly be the result of successive generations of readers and critics having enshrined just a few masterpieces from a vast production of varying quality and consigning the rest to largely deserved oblivion. No, the authors of bygone eras were simply just so much better at capturing the soul of woman in words.
visapuru sipepayupa teseye yakavo· sikino to seye sisapu to yipe pehoñi: sipepayuno eravisa yoha yakayo· sakipu ku Hihatoveno [to vayi to sopu] ue Pesekimano [semonopo maya]:
literature.NOM today-ESS dismal be-PRS–INFR | this-GEN and character.NOM shallow and plot.NOM force-PPP ||
today-GEN classic.NOM where.Q be-PRS–Q | such as Hihatove-GEN | and war.NOM and peace.NOM | or Pesekima-GEN | bleak house.NOM ||
The literature of today is dismal, with shallow characters and contrived plots. Where are the classics of today, the likes of “War and Peace” by Hihatove or “Bleak House” by Pesekima?
eravisa /ˈeɹɑˌvisɑ/ n. IN (literature) classic; masterpiece
pehoñi /ˈpehoŋi/ adj. contrived, forced, unnatural, artificial
teseye /ˈteseje/ adj. lamentable, unfortunate, dismal
sisapu /ˈsisɑpu/ adj. superficial, shallow
semonopo /ˈsemoˌnopo/ adj. 1. cheerless, bleak, depressing;
2. inconsolable
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