Though John reaches peaks of lyricism, he also presents the reader with considerable difficulties because his approach is rigorously intellectual.
His article for Gourmet magazine, about the Maine Lobster festival, manages to cover vast amounts of philosophical ground, before confronting readers with genuine ethical difficulty: "Is your refusal to think about any of this the product of actual thought, or is it just that you don't even want to think about it?
Second, Grossman presents the reader with the difficulty of confronting and then coming to understand – and finally to love – the deeply offensive comedian who is at the centre of the story, Dovaleh Greenstein.
Our initial sample included 45 English participants: 28 had a diagnosis of developmental dyslexia from a prior educational assessment and 17 were normal readers with no history of learning difficulties.
If the reader has difficulties with terminology, concepts, or procedures described in this manuscript, there are several resources that provide excellent and detailed descriptions of electrophysiology theory and methods (2, 8- 9).
How does an epic novel like David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest simultaneously infuriate potential readers with its length and textual difficulty while remaining impervious to any suggestion that it's merely an academic exercise?
Our dyslexic readers had concurrent difficulties with reading, spelling and phonological tasks (Supplementary Fig. 1), despite good educational opportunities and the absence of sensory or neurological damage (see 'Materials and methods' section for details).
But the hell with difficulties.
The violin part is dense with difficulties.
Comics are also a powerful educational tool for assisting readers with dyslexia or autism who may have difficulty processing text.
Despite these alleged difficulties, the authors of pox treatises provided their readers with a list of symptoms that they personally considered to be related to the French disease.
