Writing, Decorated

I've noticed in many journal entries elaborate use of graphics of many varieties, colored backgrounds, colored fonts of many styles. Some such sites suggest to me an old fashioned bordello such as can be found in Italy, Naples for example. Women's sites include winged angels in white, one sitting on a swing. Others suggest a comic book with pictures and ballooned dialog. Such decorated written communication grabs one at first just from the sheer effort and clamor for patient reading by the prospective visitor, but soon it pales, especially of course if the prose is pedestrian. Even one college professor of English lunges into this kind of journalistic bombast: it's embarrassing.

Barry

It's also begging. 'Poor little ol' me, suffering for art,' variety.