Dear Walt Whitman.
February 13, 2006 – 7:54 PMI love you and all. The transcendentalist period is my favorite, after all. But you know, this nasty habit of yours where you enlist twenty-paragraph-long runon sentences in order to express your very valid arguments and ideas really gets very annoying when I'm trying to quote you in my research papers. Please be concise in the future, if you're still writing up there in transcendentalist poetic heaven. Thanks.