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The clipped way of writing which abbreviates words and packs information into the smallest possible number of words or characters.

What do you think of this style and what author does it best? Any great books written with this style?

>> No.23115851

>>23115810
Harsh on the reader if done poorly, but enjoyable if the rythm and flow is good. Agota Kristof's The Notebook comes to mind.

>> No.23115918
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>>23115810
Congratulations, I'm going to look at porn now. ARE YOU HAPPY, OP?! ARE YOU!?

>> No.23115934

>>23115918
haha wut

Answer the questions

>> No.23115943

>>23115918
Do you think they found him dead or is this a group femdom type of thing (gross)?

>> No.23115954

>>23115934
I don't have answers to your questions. The style is efficient, but boring, I suppose. I was just made horny by your pic--and on that note--it gave me an idea for a book--or, more specifically, my subsequent fantasizing gave me an idea for a character in a book, whose psychology could be central to the book's themes.

>>23115943
Dead? Sir, he is clearly being bullied.

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>>23115954
Thanks, and nice to hear. I have another picture for you

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>>23115971
Alright, I wrote it all down so I wouldn't forget. Not my proudest idea, but what do you think?

[skipping some of what I'd written for context] Well, this invigorated me, but as I do not fantasize about being dominated, I envisioned a version where the man (who would, of course, be me) reversed his position and dominated the two women. I imagined their contentions becoming a mutual arousal and resulting in intercourse, but as I immersed myself in this I realized the feelings of aggressive domination did not subside as easily as I would expect, and I wordlessly asked myself what would make them subside? So I progressed the vision. I imagined a scenario wherein two people (having phased out the other two women for the purposes of this process), a man and a woman, have a friendship with an underlying playful tension that is emasculating the man--whether more than she would guess or not is not of immediate importance. This emasculation eventually results in the pictured circumstance or a similar one. What begins as a vindicative act of aggression, a near rape, as he reverses his humiliations gradually subsumes into a consensual act, gaining significance and engendering love for the woman; but the man, who has felt inwardly emasculated for so long, clings to his feelings of aggressive domination as an unconscious way of reclaiming his feelings of self-respect which had been gradually diminished even while seeing her open up to him affectionately under his touch--for him, this is her punishment and his deserved satisfaction. This stubborn war within him, the trench he has drawn between them, stays a secret--just as his humiliations before. The sex results in a pregnancy and the relationship in a marriage. So I asked myself again, "If the initial sex act could not, for him, be of love, but of conquest, then surely, after marriage and the birth of his own son by this woman, he could make love to her and the sex act not be of war?"In other words, while their first time together was combat, could subsequent times be romance? And I find, yes. He probably could, perhaps, yet then I ask, "In that son, would there be something of an icon of his conquest? Would there be a tendency to use or rear the son as an extension of the pride of domination? And if this were so, would the psychology of the son and family be tainted and fractured by the extension of a decades old personal war against the mother by the father of which no one, save him were aware?" Those characters, and the dynamics of their household, with the son acting as a focal lens for all that has gone on within his own parents, would be the subject matter of the work.

>> No.23116305

>>23115810
The point of writing isn't to "pack information" as densely as possible, except in the field of technical writing. If you really enjoy reading stuff like that, I suggest "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie.
A sentence can be a thing of beauty, so why not exploit that? Writers owe it to their readers.
Reading is much more than devouring facts. It should appeal to our sense of aesthetics.

>> No.23117292

>>23115810
Hemingway

>> No.23117298

Also try James Ellroy’s American Tabloid.

>> No.23117304

>>23115810
what kind of "man" has a fendom fetish

>> No.23117341 [DELETED] 

>>23115810
giwtwm. I'm talking about the guy btw

>> No.23117357

>>23115918
Stop touching yourself you fucking freak.

>> No.23117359

>>23117304
actual domination no, but I like femdom porn because the woman is a more active participant, making it more interesting
Personally I think the whole "kink shaming" discussion is a cope for people trying to pretend BDSM isn't a psychological issue but maybe I'm talking out of my ass, idk.

>> No.23117570

>>23116073
Word salad. Aint nobody reading that. Just write the way you talk.

>> No.23117729

>>23117570
>t. filtered
You need to read more. I've read it and reread it. It's fine.

>> No.23117733

>>23117357
I actually didn't. My sexual energy got literally rerouted into my ideas. I ended up playing chess and working on tactics instead. Now here I am again.