One of the things that's influenced me recently is Edward Said's "On Late Style" (which I didn't finish, but got the gist of). It's basically an analysis of the high-culture equivalent of jumping the shark.
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I have a nearly 70k words in my drafts folder accumulated in the last 2 years. It's all late style bs that I'm not happy with. I'm going through carefully and nuking most of it. I'm too young to be there already...as a book writer I would have taken another 10y to get there.
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I thought "late style" generally referred to the more austere, purgative style of, say, the late Wallace Stevens. (Goethe was more baroque.)
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No, Said has a different idea in mind
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