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16008244 No.16008244 [Reply] [Original]

How do I become more Laconic? I'm thinking the Feynman method of memorizing a work than summarizing it in a denser form would be ideal.

Thoughts?

>> No.16008302

>How do I become more Laconic?
would've been enough, you can leave out
>I'm thinking the Feynman method of memorizing a work than summarizing it in a denser form would be ideal.
It's implied (someone reads the sentence and then sees the opening and how they relate)

>Thoughts?
no thanks

>> No.16008657

>>16008244
Like this

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>>16008244
The better option is building vocabulary and transforming anything you encounter. Gestures. Rules. Instructions. Memes. Maybe anything with abstraction.
Nice topic.

>> No.16009876

>>16008244

Good, difficult question. I can only offer a few vague suggestions:

* TRUST THE READER
He's more intelligent than you think. You don't need to spell everything out. That's like explaining a joke.

* READ GOOD WRITERS
Every good writer (even if known for a florid style) will express things very succinctly when he feels it's appropriate. An example: the first act of Antony & Cleopatra. Antony is in the middle of a lot of flowery nonsense with C., and a messenger comes from Rome, and A. doesn't want to bother with that, so he answers in the tersest possible way. He says, effectively: "I don't want to hear about that now; it's ruining the mood; just summarize what you have to say". But he says it in *four words*.

>Cleopatra. If it be Love indeed, tell me how much.
>Antony: There's beggery in the love that can be reckon'd.
>Cleo. I'll set a bourne how far to be belov'd.
>Antony: Then must thou needs find out new Heav'n,
>new Earth.
>Enter a Messenger.
>Messenger: News, my good Lord, from Rome.
>Antony: Grates me, the sum.

* READ POETRY
By its nature poetry is compressed. Good poets (maybe not Walt Whitman) constantly find ways to say things quickly. Some are more notable for it than others. W.H.Auden is a good example. In one of the Sonnets from China he is talking about a random lowly soldier left dead on a battlefield in a war he didn't understand and wouldn't have approved of if he had. Auden gets a whole nexus of emotions across in one line:

>Deserted by his generals and his lice.

(Lice leave your body when you die.)

>> No.16010927

>>16008244
Speak more with less.

>> No.16010957

>>16009876
Quality post. Thank you, anon.

>> No.16011258
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>> No.16011361

>>16011258
here's a you you faggot
>simply say less
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>> No.16011539

>>16008244
practice poetry

>> No.16011565

>>16008244
you want to stop speaking almost entirely so that whenever you actually do it has instant gravity. then you make a pun of some kind. ez-pz

>> No.16011603

>>16011258
>>16011565
this lol
Also I hope you are a new englander because those people make the best stoics or laconic people. Not Boston or Greenwich douches but more educated but backwoods Connecticut or Mass people

>> No.16011717

>>16011603

Wow - I actually am from rural CT. Nice spot.