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14053300 No.14053300 [Reply] [Original]

>Turn page.
>It's a single paragraph.
>Text covers entire page.
>No dialogue.

>> No.14053327

Henry James?

>> No.14053332

>Chapter is over 20 pages

>> No.14053351
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14053351

>Turn page
>[this sentence is not capitalized. This one is.]

>> No.14053352
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>exciting passage; narrative is building up
>turn the page
>eyes quickly dart down
>spoil the payoff for yourself before you get there

>> No.14053363
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14053363

>footnote goes on for several pages

>> No.14053367

>>14053300
>turn page
>only couple sentences
>end of chapter

>> No.14053657
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14053657

>the sentence goes on for two pages

>> No.14053658

>>14053363
go to bed, David

>> No.14053661

>>14053657
Go to bed, James

>> No.14053672

>>14053657
u pathetic, anon go continue reading schruwelpeter

>> No.14053679

>>14053300
>turn page
>lots of dialogue
>everybody walk the dinosaur

>> No.14053681

>no pictures
>no dialogue
I'm getting sleepy already

>> No.14054010

>>14053363
It's called being thorough

>> No.14054760

>turning a page
>not clicking right arrow

>> No.14054777

>>14053300
ie the entirety of Krasznahorkai's work

>> No.14054918
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14054918

>turn page.
>it's a single paragraph.
>text covers entire page.
>it's dialogue.

>> No.14054948

>parentheses ( begins
>turn page, keep reading
>turn page, forget about (
>lone ) appears

>> No.14054967

>entire chapters are long monologues of characters rambling about alchemy, occult, and metaphysics

>> No.14054975
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>>14054967
shit, forgot pic

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>>14053332
> chapters progressively get longer, breaching 70 pages each; the successive chapters becoming more sublime and engaging - before crashing down in clasped fury at the ruin of Constantinople.

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>>14053300
>reading textbook
>turn page
>no pictures

>> No.14055265

>sentence runs on for 5 pages

>> No.14055271

>>14054967
>>14054975
August was based as hell.

>> No.14055274

>>14053367
I always find this cathartic

>> No.14056309

>>14053363
Nothing like a bit of de selby

>> No.14056323

>turn the page
>pictures

>> No.14056340
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>>14053300
>turn to first page
>just one sentence
>flip through the rest of the book
>it's blank

>> No.14056375
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>whole page is description of the scenery

>> No.14056386

>>14054918
Based dosty

>> No.14056405

>>14054918
I had a lot of trouble with this at first, forgetting who was speaking because a monologue goes on for 3 pages, but now I find it kind of kino

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> turn page
> it’s a single paragraph
> there’s no periods
> why is some of this in Latin?
> what is this obscure word? Wow his vocabulary is good. Nope it’s Irish vernacular
> turn next page
> what is he describing
> oh it’s a memory of having a memory

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>>14056375

>> No.14056550
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>an expression in french
>it's italicized

>> No.14056552

>>14054993
Fuck I hated this

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>>14053300
>dialog is included as part of paragraphs with no separate lines
t-thanks Patrick O' Brien

>> No.14056733
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14056733

>turn page
>scare Grover
fuck I'm sorry dude

>> No.14056830

>>14053300
>Part of the conversation is in french
>No footnotes, no directory, no translation

>> No.14057485

>>14056830
fucking tolstoy

>> No.14057493

>the author doesn’t know how to finish his series

>> No.14057594

>>14055271
You are based as hell.
You will achieve everything you've ever dreamt, anon.