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What’s the excuse for making a chapter 40 pages long?

>> No.20677790

>>20677771
You might be better off asking Don DeLillo that question

>> No.20677881

having actually something to say

>> No.20678447

>>20677771
It's really good.

>> No.20678458

>>20677777

>> No.20678496

>>20677771
No excuse required.

>> No.20678511

>>20677771
Because you can.

>> No.20678679

>>20677771
>charcoal corduroy jacket

Yo, professor t, looking fly as fuck today fr no cap

>> No.20678697

>>20677771
People used to be literate

>> No.20678776
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20678776

Individual chapters should be able to stand up on their own just as well as they do with all the rest.

>> No.20678843

>>20677771
>he didn't read Melmoth the Wanderer

>> No.20678901

>>20677771
Yeah, what *is* acceptable for how long a chapter is? I usually write somewhere between 1000-1500 words, and it's barely a few pages.

>> No.20679629

>>20677771
>laughs in thomas bernhard

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20679832

>paragraph is 100 pages long

>> No.20679865

>>20677771
in his defense, Twitter had yet to be invented and writing 40 page long chapters wasn't the end of the world in the time period he wrote in.

>> No.20679875

A chapter is never too long. Nor is it too short. It is precisely as long as it needs to be.

>> No.20680778

>>20677771
None.

>> No.20680791

>>20679875
based

>> No.20681151

>>20677771
The author saying so I think

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20681228

Longest chapter I can think of:
Chapter 1 of The Sound and the Fury. (73 pages in my edition.)

Shortest chapter I can think of:
"My mother is a fish." (As I Lay Dying).

Can anyone beat either of these?

>> No.20681249
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20681249

Longest chapter I can think of:
Chapter 2 of The Sound and the Fury. (104 pages in my edition.)

Shortest chapter I can think of:
"My mother is a fish." (As I Lay Dying).

Pretty cool of WF to hold both records, if you ask me.

(Bonus: longest paragraph I can think of = second paragraph of Molloy by Samuel Beckett, which is 83 pages long in my edition.)

Can anyone beat any of these?

>> No.20681304

>>20681249
The Mahabharata is literally infinite in its meaning.