"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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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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1. who 2. what
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oh wow i thought you had read all extremely bad fantasy novels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_Gate_Cycle …
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oh no weis/hickman? i don't, uh, patronize D&D tie-in mechanics, they are beneath me *opens dog-eared copy of Shadow of the Torturer*
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okay there Drizzt42069
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I'll never be Your Drizz't Do'Urden
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oh my god, it's been ages since I read that series. Good stuff.
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