Yukio Mishima on his writing style:
"My ideal style would have had the grave beauty of polished wood in the entrance hall of a samurai mansion on a winter's day."
Dude was really messed up. This is how you end up committing seppuku and inspiring generations of malcontents into general dickishness.
Me, I want my writing to have the low-gravitas feel of a McMansion.
The point about postures and truths is an interesting insight though. I’m content to leave truths requiring a disciplined military bearing to others. The truths that concern me are the ones that can only be glimpsed when you’re slouching about mediocrely, whining and complaining
Gravitas inhibits your ability to see more than undignified weakness though
He walked in beauty, of the might
of faultless poise, and sightless eyes;
And the cutting edge of endless night,
met his belly — now dead he lies
With apologies to Lord Byron
Missed this thread in Jan. Probably cultivating my appreciation for something beautiful 😅
It's insightful and rings true. Your de-valuing of aesthetics vs. novelty is deeply ingrained in all your recent stuff.
I wasn't correcting you on your own assessment of yourself lol. I was saying that it has been something I've specifically noticed in your writing for about 3-4 yr. Before then it didn't stand out to me, whether there or not. That's what I meant.