(Thanks, MrF. :)

For what it may be worth, Sorcha's writing style is peculiar.

Each paragraph consists of just one complex or compound sentence with multiple clauses.

It's possible that it's simply an archaic style, a syntax deliberately taught by someone, somewhere, that was perhaps in vogue decades ago.

(I seem to recall that journalist and commentator Eric Sevareid (1912-1992) wrote and spoke in wonderfully complex sentences. But Sevareid's sentences always delivered their meaning with great clarity. Sorcha's, not so much. :)

Sorcha's sentences _delay_ resolution for longer than what we're used to these days. And the multiple clauses create detours along the way.

Those characteristics, taken together, tend to bore and disorient the mind - which can lead to the threshold of a 'trance state'.

Are readers being offered hypnotic suggestions by Sorcha? Not that I can see.

I'm wondering, though, if the peculiar structure of Sorcha's writing accomplishes some other purpose we wouldn't likely be aware of.

Blessings.

--hobie

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