2011

Rose Power

Wednesday, 28 December 2011

A text from Mr Darcy

I took my last experiment a step further and reduced the same letter down from an email to a text!


I feel like this has gone too far in abbreviating the message; a lot of meaning has been lost and it's almost incomprehensible. Perhaps it's fair to say that people communicated on a deeper level, though less frequently and easily, in the 1800s.

For me, a text is not the right format for such drastic information and too much has been discarded here. Or perhaps Carol Ann Duffy is right in claiming a text forces us to choose our words more carefully and powerfully. It could be that this text, in its brevity, is more dramatic than the email or the letter!

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