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Have you noticed certain phrases or words writers like to use a lot? DFW seemed to have really liked the word "putative" and the phrase "and but so".

>> No.6953702

and then

like something

>> No.6953709

>>6953698
He also says "oblique" like a hundred times. McCarthy uses"by and by" a shit ton.

>> No.6953723

>>6953709
McCarthy likes saying "Ye" and "Tortilla" and "And"

Pinecone likes "cuz" and "sez"

>> No.6954074

So on and so on.

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6954084

Rare Wallace thread?

>> No.6954091
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>>6953698
Hart Crane had a fixation with "milk" and "milky" when he was young.

>> No.6954106

>>6953698
merely.

>> No.6954108

>>6953698
and so on *sniff*

>> No.6954133

>>6954108
Zizek?

>> No.6954146

Metempsychosis.

>> No.6954171

>>6954108
my psychoanalytical friends tell me something important, namely that.... and so on

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>>6954084
I like this one

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>>6954206
Already had that one, it's a quality Wallace.

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;

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—

>> No.6954230

>>6954225
Are there any Wordsworth Classics Wordsworths?

>> No.6954240

Lovecraft used "nebulous" and "aesthete" to an absurd extent

>> No.6954262

>>6953698
GES
TALT

ONTO
LOGICAL

>> No.6954283

Williams loved using the word perfunctory in Stoner

>> No.6954345

I seem to remember DFW using "meme" a lot

>> No.6954346

DFW implacable

>> No.6954356
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6954356

I understand WSB's constant use of "jissom," "cock," etc. as much as anybody can, but never understood how often he says "carbolic soap" this and "carbolic soap" that.

>> No.6956000

>>6953723
And "well." I finished Suttree a few days ago and its everywhere.
>I hang out with a guy who fucks melons
>I'm estranged from my family
>I'm going on a vision quest
>Well

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6956104

Desmesurado

>> No.6956113

PAROXYSM
A
R
O
X
Y
S
M

>> No.6956135

>>6956104
> that left eyebrow

OK

>> No.6956143

>>6956135
whoa it's like his left eye is very hot and the browhairs have been swept up in a draft of air.

>> No.6956148

Herbert used "betrayed" a lot in Dune

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>>6954084
>>6954206
>>6954219

>> No.6956678

>>6956670
Every Shitposting Story is a Spook Story

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J. GODDAMN D. GODDAMN SALINGER

>> No.6956684

>>6956678

Note it was posted a week before I was banned.

It was such a fun thread. How is it not literary discussion anyway?

>> No.6956855

Post-millenial DFW used taciturn a lot, which I think he picked up from Borges or Nabakov.

>> No.6957132

Strabismic
Lapidary
Hirsute
Tektitic

>> No.6957145

>>6953698
Putative is a good word.

>> No.6957293

>>6953709
>McCarthy
Like some [adjective] [adjective] [noun]