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Anno
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I seem incapable of brevity.
Not me.
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Crasher
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Re: I seem incapable of brevity. [Re: Anno]
#7963405 - 02/01/08 04:38 AM (16 years, 22 hours ago) |
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Lengthy prose is the course of the young soul.
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Jackenobi
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its easy to mistake the shroomery for your magnum opus
its nice to rhapsodise
one shouldn't necessarily aspire to concise narrative, call that a project if its something you want to explore
shroomery and e mail are no place for such intent though, i tend to overegg the pudding here and there too but fuck it, mostly i'll just try to pull it off as irreverent
has anyone heard of yukio mishima and his novel The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea? japanese writers... its like they can't help themselves. the haiku vibe... their culture seems to recommend writing of that nature - brevity/conciseness/poise
one day i'll follow that school, but probably not right now. there is too much i want to verbalise
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circularvortex
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OneLessForeskin said: I notice a lot of the time I'll be e-mailing back and forth with people and they'll take two or three sentences to say what they need to say effectively. I can't tell if my responses grow into paragraphs because I'm unable to concisely deliver the information/thoughts/ideas I want to convey, or if it's because I just have that much to say. It seems like everything I say bleeds into some other idea, and all my writing is full of asides, extra information bookended by dashes, and parenthetical detours. Oh well. I'm not complaining, but sometimes I sit back and read Hemingway and wonder if I'll ever be able to edit my own writing down to such absolutely effective brevity.
This post should have read, "I think I talk too much."
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WhiskeyClone
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The fewer words used to make a point, the more powerful, IMO. Every unnecessary word weakens the prose.
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Madtowntripper said: "The softly shining pale yellow sun sank slowly beneath the flat horizon, its shimmering rays reaching greedily out over the their steadily shrinking domain."

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OneMoreRobot3021



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Re: I seem incapable of brevity. [Re: Anno]
#7963709 - 02/01/08 07:29 AM (16 years, 19 hours ago) |
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Anno said:
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I seem incapable of brevity.
Not me.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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