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Anonymous Fri Jan 31 10:15:50 2020 No.14638855 [Reply] [Original]

why is exceedingly awful prose just as hard -- if not harder -- to write than good prose?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 10:22:48 2020 No.14638870 The elephant was partial to a spot of the old death metal. He asked his parents for a guitar, so he could jam along with his fav bands. His parents didn't have any money--times were tough in the Bronx. That's when the elephant turned to crime...

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 10:23:04 2020 No.14638871 the reason you're not an idiot savant is that you aren't exceptional in either way exceptional people are by definition rare

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 10:28:01 2020 No.14638886 >>14638855 Bad prose can't just be mediocre and typical, it has to surprise you, it has to be an approach that would simply not have occurred to you at all, so far removed is it from accomplishing its objective.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 16:43:05 2020 No.14640529 >>14638855 Because all happy families are more or less the same

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 17:11:24 2020 No.14640667 >>14638886 Calling typical prose mediocre is lowering the standard. It's bad prose my dude.