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I had no trouble figuring out what they meant.
Only if you use the most literal and pedantic definition of meaning. Yes, the words themselves have definitions, of which I am knowledgable. And yes, they are arranged in a technically grammatically correct manner. And yes, it might be argued, though it approaches the vanishing point of reason to do so, that they convey what might be called (if one is inclined to great charity) some kind of complete thought. But what do they MEAN? The words have no significance, no substance, no life. They say absolutely nothing of worth. They have neither beauty nor utility. They are pointless, meaningless, insufferable fluff. This is not poetry. It's a try-hard's attempt at poetry. If I were a pessimistic and sneering sort, I might think that these passages were designed not to capture the imagination of the reader, but to flaunt the author's vocabulary. And what's worse, this line:
The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.
This is the opening line of the book.
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