Has purple prose ever been done well?

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Anonymous Fri Nov 3 00:57:26 2017 No.10221481 [Reply] [Original]

Has purple prose ever been done well?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 3 00:59:04 2017 No.10221487 Nabokov and Gass but thats about it I used to love the prosody of McCarthy but its gotten kind of sickly to me on rereads

Anonymous Fri Nov 3 01:03:05 2017 No.10221498
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>>10221481
>that one thread a few weeks ango where a bunch of anons were trying to answer OP's challenge and write an expressive poem about frying an eggplant
>that one anon who snidely writes ">implying you can't write about purple vegetables without purple prose"

Yes

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 3 01:06:38 2017 No.10221509 >>10221481 "purple prose" already implies its overwrought, or that the prose isn't working somehow.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 3 03:59:47 2017 No.10221863 >>10221481 >finnegan's wake A'ight.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 3 04:01:13 2017 No.10221865 F. Scott Fitzgerald

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