/lit/ - Literature

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-chavez/venezuelas-chavez-heads-to-cuba-for-medical-treatment-idUSBRE8AQ0Z420121127

>Venezuela's Chavez heads to Cuba for medical treatment
>dies

At least he died being treated by his fellow comrades

>For a city like London, as we have seen, could not easily be described in a rhetorical gesture of repressive uniformity.

>It is true that this miscellanity and randomness in the end embodied a system: a negative system of indifference; a positive system of differentiation.

Why is so much old timey writing (like early 1900s and before) written like this? So confusing and unclear. These were in a reading for one of my classes and I don't get why people wrote this way. Is this really the best way to express it? Is there any clarity of thought here? I guess I'm just an idiot if I don't fully understand it.