/lit/ - Literature

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>>20643037
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut

>>18926883
picrel, the thread.

>>18927142
i find that the most impressive writing hints at a well-read erudite genius who distills his language into something pithy but meaningful, but without relying on rare words that alienate listeners. idk why, but that's the impression I get when I read Strunk's quote:

"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."

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>>12508006
I'm not american either but theyre the cultural hegemons and make up like 80% of english first language speakers so people care about what they think sorry