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I've seen some pseuds comparing him to Pynchon. They've clearly never read Amanda McKittrick Ros.

>> No.10915773

>>10915655
Post excerpts

>> No.10915843

>>10915773
A character earns money through needlework:

>She tried hard to keep herself a stranger to her poor old father's slight income by the use of the finest production of steel, whose blunt edge eyed the reely covering with marked greed, and offered its sharp dart to faultless fabrics of flaxen fineness.

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>>10915843
>all those adjectives

>> No.10916038

>>10915843
Flaubert was right, adjectives were a mistake.