James Joyce, the greatest prose writer in history, and a personal favorite, was near-sighted. Our Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, was short-sighted, and invented the bifocals in order to help him see. The Roman stoic, Seneca, used a glass bowl of water in order to read books. Aldous Huxley, the writer of the famous Brave New World, was myopic too. I can go on and on.
All great writer and thinkers are myopic. If you don't suffer from myopia; if you have never seen the world through myopic eyes, then you are probably never going to write something that's going to have an impact on the world.
Adrian Phillips
>Our Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin >our
Adrian Morales
I look forward to reading 800 replies to this thread.
David Wood
The Neetch was also very myopic toward the end of his life. It's why his handwriting became illegible to all but one person, who was also a friend.
Benjamin Thompson
What a shortsighted perspective.
Aiden Mitchell
Still, his myopia allowed him to have eerily prophetic insights that impacted the world.
Ian Scott
>Homer Blind >Milton Blind >Borges Blind
Catholics BTFO
Jeremiah Long
All of the best writers have had cerebral palsy.
Cooper Moore
>James Joyce, the greatest prose writer in history
yeah if you're blind
Levi Harris
Ayyyyyy
Leo Thomas
What does it mean if you're longsighted?
Easton Davis
>my little farter
Asher Howard
Nietzsche used a Hansen Writing Ball because he was so blind.
But losing your eyesight sucks. Especially when you're losing it largely due to being forced to sit in front of two monitors all day in a brightly lit office with a a bare fluorescent tube hanging a few feet over your desk.
Jaxon Collins
Hitler had problems with his eyes and needed very intense illumination.
You are onto something.
Dylan Diaz
Replace myopic with stomach problems:proust,nietchze,joyce,hitler,bach,hegel,napoleon etc..
Nathan Reed
Too lazy to research but I read that short sighted children tend to be more intelligent because they engage in activities in their close range like creative playing or reading early on.
Thomas Rivera
I'm long-sighted (perfect near-sight) and I'm one of the top 5 intelligent people on Veeky Forums
Nolan Young
Partly true, the main point of them being myopic is because they spend most of their time indoors, e.g. reading books or playing on the computer. But shortsightedness can be avoided by spending 2 hours per day outside, in natural light, prefferably when its sunny. Near-work is not the cause of myopia, but a lack of natural light.
Samuel Richardson
Wew lad
Alexander Cruz
>tfw not innteligent enogh too be miopic
Anthony Martin
>when you made the cut
Jason Green
I realize this is off-topic, but
>If you don't suffer from myopia; if you have never seen the world through myopic eyes, then you are probably never going to write something that's going to have an impact on the world.
Can anyone explain to me why or why not this is a proper use of semicolon? Wouldn't the first part be just a fragment?
Landon Allen
wow youre that dumb?
Chase Collins
The first part is a fragment, so you are correct and it is an improper use of a semi-colon.
Andrew Lee
lurk more
Levi Phillips
>tfw almost blind, extremely aesthetic looking, alcoholic, tall, upper class, cigar smoker, white male, introvert, extremely sensitive, Catholic >tfw still suck at writing
Camden Foster
Do you know if that rule has always been static? I see similar uses of the semicolon of that of OP in books all of the time, mostly in older texts.
Jacob Wilson
That makes sense, I didn't get glasses until I was in middle school and then I never wore them until halfway through HS. Before that I was for all it matters autistic, I didn't understand socializing and could never see people's faces or expressions and was very introverted as a result. This probably helps people focus on narrative and details
Joseph Sanchez
>All great writer and thinkers are myopic. >writer