I’m glad you showed prompt appreciation : ) of my explication. That is a good word to describe what I did. I’ve become very explicative in my skill of teaching; not all types of teachers are able to explicate anything!! Ha ha, I find it both a compliment but an amusing joke that an engineer should say that I might be an English Professor. My first degree was a 4-year research degree in Psychology. My hope of being a professor is only a dream at the moment : ( Psychology requires the highest level of English skills just to understand the research journals! BUT not all psych graduates are as good with words as I am because I’ve always had other talents or natural abilities (“gifts”) such as the complementary ability to write anything.
This will be a long but not extremely long reply because some of the sentences in that book are difficult to explain. It requires a university humanities and/or social science education, great general knowledge, analysis, teaching talent, good communication skills, and a
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I’ve read that it was a New York Times listed bestseller (large volume sales, made popular by Oprah Winfrey’s personal promotion of that author). I’ve also read that it attracted split opinions from professional critics of literature: some liked it while others hated it. I’m guessing that 40% did not like how the author writes (I’m in that group). From your examples, I see that he rambles and does not care if his words make sense or not. There are plenty of amateur and professional writers, as well as wanna-be hobby writers on Pen Pal World (PPW), who claim to be writers simply because they twist words and meanings or are too liberal in their expressions. What I mean is that they are all too obsessed with their own vague thoughts ; ) , they assume they know the meaning of words but their vocabulary is not as large as mine, they confuse metaphors and symbols, and they struggle to express concepts clearly