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Where did this genius get his style from?

Seems like a mix of The Bible and Hemingway's polysyndeton, Faulkner and Melville

>> No.10906469

>>10906467
and milton
he just copies better stylists

>> No.10906487

>>10906467
Pretty much what you said. With some of his own rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling and so on.

>> No.10906534

>>10906467
and and and and and and BIG WORD and and and GORE and and and and NO PUNCTATION

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>>10906534
>make surface level observations of an author's style
>thinking you're contributing anything to the discussion

>> No.10906770

Certain parts of Suttree really ripped me up. I'm actually going on a roadtrip to Knoxville soon because I felt such a spiritual response to the book.

>> No.10906908

>>10906534
>and as the boy scanned the curve of the earth, the azure web of cold sky, the ruins of slategrey plateaus bolstering the lugubrious cosmic wounds, he still never stopped on his scribbling never not once. The deacon asked him what is was he was scribbling about
>what's that there
>what
>that there in your lap what's that there you're writin
>nothin
>he spat
>sure looks like somethin
>what's it to ye. I've always been'a writin since id come out the womb even before id been thought up of ive been writin with never no stopping to it just'a kept on goin no dots or dashes or nothin never gonna stop neither
>why
>no need to
>a man never needs a reason to write or not write ye can jus a well live out not writin a thing but fer me writins a thing and i never stop
>its something that go on indefinitely
>forever
>and so the boy wrote, and he says that he will never stop writing. He's writing, writing. He writes in darkness or by moonlight. On the flats or in the valleys. He says that he will never punctuate.

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>>10906908
well, at least you tried.

>> No.10907188

>>10906908
10/10 would shitpost

>> No.10907699

>>10906534
>t. Eurofag

>> No.10907707

>>10906467
1. Melville
2. Faulkner
3. Joyce
4. Hemingway
5. Milton
6. Shakespeare

A lot of people miss the Joyce influence.

>> No.10909339

>>10907707
What's joycean about yecarthy?