/lit/ - Literature

Best writer of sentences since Shakespeare.

>>21578545
Some hate him, most love him.

>>21467351
Cliche choice but for good reason.

>One spring morning timing the lean near-liquid progress of a horse on a track, the dust exploding, the rapid hasping of his hocks, coming up the straight foreshortened and awobble and passing elongate and birdlike wish harsh breaths and slatted brisket heaving and the muscles sliding and brunching in clocklike flexion under the wet black hide and a gout of foam hung from the long jaw and then gone in a muted hoofclatter, the aging magistrate snapped his thumb from the keep of the stopwatch he held and palmed it into his waistcoat pocket and looking at nothing, nor child nor horse, said anent that simple comparison of rotary motions and in the oratory to which he was prone that they had witnessed a thing against which time would not prevail.
>He meant a thing to be remembered, but the young apostate by the rail at his elbow had already begun to sicken at the slow seeping of life. He could see the shape of the skull through the old man's flesh. Hear sand in the glass. Lives running out like something foul, night-soil from a cesspipe, a measured dripping in the dark. The clock has run, the horse has run, and which has measured which?

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>>19855686
My Granpa.
>>19855844
Rushdie's prose is too normal. The best thing about it is that it is never a hindrance, and occasionally amusing.

They do. It depends on what you mean with it. Joyce and Nabokov play with words/puns more than they do with grammatical structures. Even Finnegans wake can be understood conventionally if all the puns in the book are understood. Shakespeare is a good example of that different kind of play, as is pic related. There is also Gertrude Stein who, in my opinion, goes well beyond Joyce (and anybody else for that matter) in playing with the base structure of English.

>>18920489

Grandpa McCarthy is 88 today.

Wish him a birthday /lit/!