FWIW, I have a number of excellent one-liners about the weather. They’re sure to elicit at least a chuckle. (out of pity.)
Weather you want them or not, here come the puns.
Romans legionaries in Britannia started every conversation with the weather. They said, “Hail! Long rain Cesar.”
Just gonna have to weather them I suppose
Whether it’s cold or whether it’s hot, there will be weather, whether or not.
A lot of those writers were paid by the word iirc
And also used it to flex on each others.
There were no video games back in the day and people had alot of time to fill.
People also had attention spans that were longer than an instagram reel, and were capable of comprehending sentences longer than a single clause.
Pffft santa clause isn’t real.
You know, at least the ones that were literate…
Idk I like the Victorian example. It does possible a lot more detail than ‘average’ and gives me a vivid picture
Seconding this. Modern writing isn’t as immersive or compelling, because it leaves out a whole wealth of details seen by publishers as superfluous.
They’re like “Why are you including this?” “Why did you say this?” “Why’s it phrased this way?” “Why is there an adjective in this sentence?”
For fuck’s sake, if the point is to make it as short as possible I’ll just leave all the pages blank and publish that, that way it’ll accommodate everyone’s attention spans and won’t risk offending anyone’s sensibilities.
I bought an abridged copy of a romance novel that was like that, The Notebook
this is one of the most accurate things that i have ever read
