Sorry for having more than one pit thread at a time. I wanted to put this in MPSIMS, but I figured it would end up in the Pit.
That is a link to the 2 plays mentioned on CNN this morning that were written by the shooter. What is more disturbing than the violence (which is poorly written and not very disturbing by modern movie standards) is the poor quality with which they are written.
Obviously, He was a very messed up person, and did a horrible act.
No, it’s not more disturbing than the violence, it’s more indicative of a mental problem. The poor quality is probably no more than your average writing student.
Junior High School, maybe. VT supposedly has an elite Creative Writing program.
From the first few exchanges–
—They each sit in front of slot machine.–
—Uh! After a long ravishing day at school, we just want to be left alone.–
Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. It gets worse.
How did this guy get in?
Maybe it’s a language thing? The whole thing reads like a bad video game translation.
I was surprised at the extremely juvenile quality of these samples. It seems hard to believe that these plays came from a senior English major at Virginia Tech. No wonder the rest of the class and the professor felt he was disturbed! These writings show a seething pit of rage and infantile anger without the outlet that can come from putting thoughts to paper coherently.
Wow. That’s some really crappy writing by a truly disturbed guy.
I think he was a business major or some such and then switched to creative writing.
Crappy, yes, and he seems quite fixated on crap and crap-related things too.
I’ve written worse.
And will again.
Shitty teenage writers expressing deep inner hatred at everything and everyone are a dime a dozen. The number of them that go on to shoot anybody is vanishingly small.
I doubt it. His writing was truly awful.
Exactly. Being a Theater major I’ve read/listened to more student plays than anyone should ever have to. His work isn’t anything unusual.
From what I understand, he was in his twenties when he wrote this— which (to be charitable) looks like the work of a 13-year-old. It reads a bit like “Waiting for Godot” as written by a younger, duller-witted Andrew Dice Clay.
Scylla, I say without guile that nothing of yours I have so far read has been quite as bad. I encourage you to keep trying, though.
I thought it read like someone who didn’t have a very good grasp on English. I thought the second story had an interesting twist at the end. shrug
Waiting for Godot wasn’t written by a young dull-witted man? Oh… hmm…
still better than this tripe
Anyone wanna summarize this dribble for someone who doesn’t want to go through the trouble of reading it?
Sure. Sounds like some poured themself a big mug o’ cuckoo juice before they started scribbling.
(It’s about searing hate for one’s stepdad. With homosexual undertones.)
channeling Jack Nicholson: “Is there any other kind?”
Does anyone ever talk about homosexual overtones?
:eek: WAY too anally fixated. Way too Engrish.