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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (46059)	7/19/1999 2:48:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I would hate to call that bad writing. There was something lovely about it. Hilariously mannered, and, to us, maybe to anyone in any time, stilted. But the author wasn't just communicating, he was showing off his instrument!, and to me it was just so cute and funny and was quite satisfying literarily. I like that little piece of absurd, showoffy, prolix writing. Here it is again. It reads aloud nicely, which is always a good thing. Both productive and unproductive labourers, and those who do not labour at all, are all equally maintained by the annual produce of the land and labour of the country. This produce, how great soever, can never be infinite, but must have certain limits. Accordingly, therefore, as a smaller or greater proportion of it is in any one year employed in maintainng unproductive hands, the more in the one case and the less in the other will remain for the productive, and the next year's produce will be greater or smaller accordingly; the whole annual produce, if we except the spontaneous productions of the earth, being the effect of productive labour."