/lit/ - Literature

>>13714976
Is this fucking real? I want to throw up

TAing for summer classes at my uni (for credit) and some kid sent this in

>In this moment, my legs were ripe eggs, each with a small chick pecking towards the world, chipping away at their outermost layers; vibrating erratically, with no discernible sense of rhythm, were these fleshy pillars of mine. Her sight was powerful enough to do that to me. My mind was a chemical, and her looks were another; to the common man, she wouldn’t have cast a spell like she did, since his brain is of a different scale; when our fires mixed, this lass and I, the reaction was an eruption so violent and so natural, that the noble scribes of Pompeii would’ve kept a wide distance. This is the difference: all nearby that doomed Roman plain were injured, killed, or cast into a statue; hear me- they were all impacted. This was the main difference between my disaster and the romans; for the localized, domestic chaos between her and I was only felt by one spectator, no matter how much I yearned for it be two.

I’m not really sure what he’s getting at here, seems like purple prose to me. Any of you guys ever work with English-type professors ? I dont like this bit personally and wanna comment on it (we use g-docs, which allows commenting) and tell the student to ease up on the word layering, but I think this is the type of shit that the teacher would like. My thinking is, I don’t understand this at all and therefore it’s too much fluff. Help?

Holy shit OP, update your simpsons folder

>>12926924
>fuck George Saunders

Why?