Topic Posted by: Cassies grandma
Date Posted: Sat Jul 12 10:25:07 2008
Additional Comments: I was looking at the Library of Congress pictures and found this picture. PICTURE I wondered what Adriaople was. So I googled it. Took me to the second page of Google before I found this article.
CLICK HERE
This is the second paragraph.
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As I stood watching one day I saw two scenes in this grim drama which made my pulses beat with a great excitement. A great bird flew across the sky towards the city, and as it flew it sang a droning song like the buzzing of an enormous bee. It was a monoplane, flown by a Bulgarian aviator, who had volunteered to reconnoiter the Turkish defenses. It disappeared swiftly into the smoke-wrack, and for some time I listened intently to a furious fusillade which seemed to meet this winged spy. After half an hour the aeroplane came back, flying swiftly away from the shot and shell which pursued it from the low-lying hills. Its wings were pierced, so that one could see the sky through them, but it flew steadily from the chase of death, and I heard its rhythmic heart-beat overhead. Its escape was certain now. It had mocked at the pursuit of the shells, and the loud beat of its engine above me was a song of triumph. I watched it disappear again---to safety. So it seemed; but death has many ways of capture, and when I came back to Mustafa Pasha that day I heard that the unfortunate aviator, after his escape from the guns, had fallen from a great height within sight of home, and that the hero's body lay smashed to pieces in the wreckage of his machine.
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Can you imagine anyone writing like that today. Doesn't it just paint the best picture? I am loving it.
Perhaps our farmer and Ricky could do this?
Do you enjoy this sort of thing? I certainly do.
From: Eva March Tappan, ed., The World's Story: A History of the World in Story, Song and Art, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914), Vol. VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, The Balkan States, and Turkey, pp. 436-440.
Posted by: serialmom Date posted: Sat Jul 12 22:38:45 2008
Message: I like it, but the majority of people are too impatient. ''Don't wanna to mess around with too many words'' LOL
Posted by: Kate Date posted: Sat Jul 12 13:34:49 2008
Message:
Yes I do. I love it. Today, everything is condensed into 10 seconds sound bites....and paparazzi chasing some hapless celebrity on the tv.
Posted by: Duffy Date posted: Sat Jul 12 11:53:38 2008
Message: I'm with you, CG. We have lost so much in the way of writing skills in the current public school curriculum. I'm afraid it is gone for good, unfortunately.
Posted by: ingyandbert Date posted: Sat Jul 12 10:30:17 2008
Message: I think much of the difference is that today the article would be accompanied by color photos or video. Not as much need to paint a picture with words.
