/lit/ - Literature

>>7307975
Basically, I echo the sentiment of the repetitions. They break the flow of the overall prose (which is not bad by any means). Still, good work so far

>>7307940
Too short for me to really have any impressions
I also assume you meant to write "kind"

Mine:

David was the single oddest person I had ever met.
A somewhat older man of 57, David Wellan Merchant was what I would describe as a walking anecdote; every action of his seemed to me painstakingly rehearsed and refined for the very purpose of being vaguely explained and joked about in some hypothetical future dinner party, many years down the line. Every little movement was bold, but also inoffensive to the senses, in a way which irritated me far more than I could ever express. He would assert himself, but do so mildly. He would ramble and rave, always choosing his words with meticulous care. I often wished that he could simply be a reckless braggart or a simpering dotard, but his refusal to conform to either bothered me far more than any offense he could have possibly committed otherwise.
Outside of his infuriating moderation, David had a few outstanding habits which defined him far more than any semblance of personality he might have possessed. For one, during the lunch hour, he would always separate all of the food on his plate, making sure no two different food items were touching each other in any way. Then, after he had annexed all of the meat and vegetables and seasonings into their little corners with surgical accuracy, he would violently smash all of the food together, systematically destroying the fruits of his efforts with an impassioned fervor.
And those were only the most superficial of his idiosyncrasies; often, he would enter a room unprovoked, and then proceed to turn on all of the lights, televisions, and electronic devices within the room. Once he had finished turning the room into an orgy of light and sensation, he would promptly leave, never looking back to acknowledge the petite maelstrom of chaos he had left in his wake.

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What were the best texts to emerge from American Transcendentalism?