/lit/ - Literature

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I write random thoughts in a word document from time to time and I have one exactly on this. Sometimes they're phrased incredibly beautifully. My favorite is
>"A strange doll in a strange dress.
>There once was an abomination who had no place in this world. She clutched this doll tightly, and eventually was drawn into a cold and lonely painted world.”
there's a real elegance to that phrasing, especially in how it withholds so much information and leaves you wondering about all sorts of details. It reminds me of a line from Essays in Idleness by Kenkō, I think the similarities are pretty apparent.
>“A lady who had reason to withdraw from the world for a time had retired to a lonely tumbledown house, where she was idling away the long days of her seclusion”