Yeah, I figured that's what he was trying to do but it's hard to do. That kind of epic phrasing when done well can be powerful and evocative but it's hard to get right.

Oh yes, I've done oral storytelling and the way I think about my words is different from how I treat them for written work. In college, I actually wrote my senior paper on oral and literate styles of writing in Greek and Roman lyric poetry, it's a topic I can go on about for a while.