the most famous Irish novel of all time takes 700 pages to tell the story of one day in which nothing very much happens
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer
If I remember it right, in Goncharov's "Oblomov" it takes the main character 160 pages to get out of bed.
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Replying to @Pinboard
that's what the story is about though, 'Bloomism' doesn't mean 'farting about' in Ireland ...
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the all time record holder for this is of course Tristram Shandy
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What pisses me off is that people wrote this stuff with goose quills, yet now 2000 words is "longform"
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jesus lord don't encourage people to think they should write *longer*
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the real mark of longform is when it spends 300 words detailing the author getting on and off a plane
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I want a return to the days when the New Yorker ran a 40,000 word trilogy on wheat!
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Make the fucker write it. I'd even read it, just for the satisfaction of knowing they made him write it.
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