The title gives it away. This book is a home for peculiar children only. Children who can use kerfuffle in a sentence. Children who can parse sentences with twenty clauses, strung together in complicated necklaces of semicolons and dashes. Children who can navigate circular and overlapping timelines. Students who would be interested to know whether this string of incomplete clauses is an example of paradeigma, or of schesis onomaton.
My students were largely not of the aforementioned variety. They did not appreciate the gratuitously intricate vocabulary, nor did they enjoy the flashily convoluted syntax. I felt that the author was just showing off. They simply gave up.
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