"Thesaurus carpet-bombings and long-winded sentences are commonly mistaken for fine writing because they feel authoritative and intellectual. But they’re just masks; effective writing is lean, clean, and easy to read."https://www.helpscout.net/blog/damn-hard-writing/ …
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and not the way a goddamn musician listens to a piece of music either
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how can anyone listen to music *not* like a musician, tho? it is possible I am misunderstanding your point. Basically I feel that experiencing music is itself musicianship; experiencing a story likewise has commonalities with creating one. Hm. Am I wrong about that?
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the musicianly tendency i am polemicizing against is picking it apart into its components and thinking about and judging the technical choices instead of experiencing the damn thing
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Ah! I call that 'reading for technique' when applied to novels, and I do it sometimes, but it's certainly not the default mode.
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oh god i just realized something remember how in the Death's Gate books the Sartans locked the Patryns up in a death maze designed to be impossible to beat by being a badass but easy to beat by becoming a better person? and the Patryns responded by becoming INSANELY BADASS?
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James Joyce tried to write a novel so resistant to analysis that English departments would be anagogically forced to let go of systematization and *experience* a work again, and English departments responded by becoming INSANE SYSTEMATIZERS
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why are we all so afraid of the avant-garde
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if we couldn't encounter something new without breaking it down into pieces small enough that we can absorb them without changing anything about ourselves, who would we even be afterward
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Joyce *wanted* people to understand his secret schemes; he literally gave the cheat sheet to his first major critic. Which isn't to say that ULYSSES doesn't reward ecstatic surrender to the glories of the work, just that Joyce wanted people to appreciate how clever it was, too.
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