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>These are the writings of a young, a very young man, who has grown up anywhere; without mother, without country, indifferent to everything other people know, fleeing all moral courage, like many other pitiful young men before him. But he, so full of anxiety and so troubled, did nothing but set his course toward death as toward a terrible and fatal decency. Not having loved women,—fullblooded though he was!—his soul and his heart, all his strength, were taken up with aberrations, strange and sad. The following dreams,—his loves!—that came to him in his beds and in the streets, and from their sequence and from their ending sweet religious considerations may arise. Who will recall the continuous sleep of the legendary Mohammedans,—brave though and circumcised! But this fantastic suffering possessing a disturbing sovereignty, it is sincerely to be hoped that this Soul, among us lost, and who desires death, it seems, should meet at that instant authentic consolations and be worthy.

Rimbaud, Arthur. Illuminations: Prose poems (New Directions Paperbook, No. 56) (pp. 153-155). New Directions. Kindle Edition.

>> No.10271539

bump

>> No.10271555

I'm sure some guy high up on the food; you know the type; somekind of language snob, who decides when you can and can't use it. That's pescriptive linguistics.

Then there's descriptive linguistics which is almost - but not - "everything goes". So, you are allowed to do as you please, but that doesn't mean you can get away with it. Those guys high up on the food chain, maybe writers or professors, they will let you know if you broke their rules.

But of course you want to know what those guys think and I don't know. I'm sure there's socially constructed rules to it; but at the same time it is also possible that some writers don't follow it and get away with it.

>> No.10271561

>>10271555
>food
...chain

>> No.10271769

anyone have a real answer?

>> No.10271834

>>10271769
Looks like you'll have to ask Steven Pinker

>> No.10271846

>>10271834
is that alain de botton's little brother?

>> No.10271854

>>10271555
>anon tried to show why punctation is important but accidently writes a perfectly legible peice with completely improper punctuation and grammar
I love this chapter

>> No.10271978

>¡Do as the Spanish!
Or, see the beauty of em dash! -- all that you wish; you can write.

>> No.10271991

>>10271978
can you put question marks in the middle of sentences too? how far does this go?

>> No.10272011
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>>10271991
Wow hold on. I don't care where you put your exclamation point, but you can't just put your question marks in the middle of a sentence. That's degeneracy; pure cultural decline. Please don't do such things. Ask your local language community for instructions on how to write correctly.

>> No.10272167

>>10272011
Why scream for statist guards - can you not guard yourself? - there should be none stronger to you than you; absolve not your power. Decline is inevitable and essential for growth - is not the reborn tree greater for its brief death? - the first instantiation of culture guaranteed the last deathly breath of culture; when we all devolve to fucking traps, the birth anew of society will propel us to greater heights.

>> No.10273023

Some of the posts in here are so obnoxious, holy heck.