Well, here is where we disagree-- I don't think format matters.
It is true that paragraphs can imply a new shot. Nothing wrong with that. It is a clever and effective way to handle visual presentation through a textual medium. But you can only stretch that technique just so far, and after that the technique itself becomes an element, not a method, of the work and interferes with the presentation.
And regardless of all that, the lack of terminal punctuation is a detriment when the sentence clearly ends there. Sentences like that stick out and draw attention to themselves.
I have known two geniuses in my life. The first one was a man who more than once said, "I have an anti-Messianic complex. I don't believe in trying to save people. I believe in letting them stew in their own juice."
I do not think that I have the same anti-Messianic complex that he did, but I have just enough of it to tell people, "If you want to argue and buck the standards, then do whatever you want. And good luck!"
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