I completely agree, but I meant it more as an example that sometimes people can be obscure to appear intelligent when really it may just be concealing the fact that they have nothing important to say. I am not trying to slight Fitzgerald or Joyce, I like both of them as authors, but when you meet people, at say a dinner party, who try to speak similar to Joyce or Fitzgerald's style of writing, it comes off as pretentious and like it is serving some other motive--mainly that they want to say they're better than you.