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nuxvomica

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5. I never heard of him but I'm glad he won

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Oct 9, 2025, 09:10 AM

Oct 9

Because he apparently writes very long sentences and so do I and have been criticized for it by people who think that literary criticism can be boiled down to counting the number of words between periods as if the flow of the sentences, their music, the journey they take you on breathlessly, have no value.

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I never heard of him but I'm glad he won nuxvomica Oct 9 #5

long sentences? am i going to run out of breath ? Tetrachloride Oct 9 #6

Individual letters and characters, too. Torchlight Oct 9 #9

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It's bullshit. Trump should get the literature prize for the fiction he promulgates on a daily basis. 3Hotdogs Oct 9 #8

For the weave! iemanja Oct 9 #10

That illiterate moron writes with a magic marker JoseBalow Oct 9 #11