Seriously? What is the deal with this guy? His prose is terrible; it has no cohesiveness, that is , it feels like an unstoppable chain of afforisms with no relation among them. WHat is you opinion, /lit/?

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Anonymous Wed Jan 16 09:55:08 2013 No.3363797 [Reply] [Original]

Seriously? What is the deal with this guy? His prose is terrible; it has no cohesiveness, that is , it feels like an unstoppable chain of afforisms with no relation among them. WHat is you opinion, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 10:05:08 2013 No.3363818 ...is that Jimmy Nail?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 10:07:08 2013 No.3363822 >>3363797 >Reading Emerson for prose Wut?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 10:32:08 2013 No.3363880 Pretty much agree. Have only read The Poet, but it seemed mostly like the inane ramblings of an opium druggie. Influential or not, that's not a particularly well-structured essay.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 11:11:08 2013 No.3364020 >>3363797 Why the Emerson hate? His essays are great >History >Self-Reliance >Nature >The Oversoul sheesh you guys just sit around whining, it is pathetic

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 11:20:08 2013 No.3364054 >>3364020 Could you elaborate on what makes it so great? It seems to my mind that his "Essays" have no essence, no clear message to give, just an empty desire for grandiose and profound matters that results in nothing

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 19:19:14 2013 No.3365409 >>3363797 "Self-Reliance" is pretty solid, I'm not sure what you're talking about -mostly due to your spelling of "aphorisms"- but he is more of a substance-over-style writer, as >>3363822 has implied.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 21:17:14 2013 No.3365731 I would appreciate some more insights and opinions. Sorry for the typo, by the way.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 21:18:14 2013 No.3365733 >afforisms

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