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6456134 No.6456134 [Reply] [Original]

What's this jerk have against quotation marks?

>> No.6456139

It doesn't matter because he will never die

>> No.6456140

404. You know that Cormac McCarthy is an idiot loser and his prose is shit, when he talks about punctuation as "weird little marks that blot the page up". But a "weird little mark" can change, not only the tone and feel of a passage, but even the FUCKING MEANING of it (if the tone and feel were not already meaning, which they are). Pretentious pseudo-intellectual loser. And that's why all his books suck ass.

>> No.6456152

>>6456134
That is a great hat!

>> No.6456324

>>6456140
nice opinions there kid

>> No.6456343

>>6456140
Go have your ego orgy somewhere else, Alex

>> No.6456387

>>6456134
More importantly what is his deal with commas and run on sentences and the west and did anyone see that Mike Tyson Mysteries episode with McCarthy?

>> No.6456392

>>6456134
His mother was killed by a drunk quotation mark.

>> No.6456452
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6456452

He also mentions commas are often very unnecessary.

I sort of like his whole style. The simplicity of the style is uncomplicated and offers more attention to prose.

>> No.6456471

>>6456140
You would do well to realize he is eliciting a tone through his lack of quotation marks and commas, as the reader reads the material slightly differently. McCarthy is skilled enough to properly utilize this effectively.

Basically, you're not my nigga.

>> No.6456558

>>6456452
>The simplicity of the style is uncomplicated

>> No.6456577

>>6456471
>he is eliciting a tone through his lack of quotation marks and commas
no he's not
he literally thinks that a great writer (i.e. himself) doesn't need to use punctuation.
>"There’s no reason to blot the page up with weird little marks. I mean, if you write properly you shouldn’t have to punctuate."

>> No.6456592

>>6456134
>>6456140
>>6456577
>Start with the Greeks (i.e. no punctuation)

>> No.6456597

>>6456577
He's just being him. He's not saying all literature him should be how he writes.
That's why you don't get advice on prose from a writer. You'll just end up with their style.

>> No.6457816

>>6456577
Is he serious? Does he like any authors besides himself?

>> No.6457862

>>6457816

He likes tons of authors besides himself. Are you fucking retarded?

>> No.6458325

I'm reading Blood Meridian ATM and I'm mentally editing his sentences as I go along so I don't get overstretched while reading a sentence that lasts 5 lines.

>> No.6458334

>>6456134
You could say the same thing about saramago, but saramago actuay has talent.

>> No.6458366

He copied Faulkner in about everything else so why not that too

>> No.6458391

>>6458334
Cormac is a far superior writer to Saramago, who is a tedious bore.

>> No.6458395

>>6458391
Top kek

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>>6458325
>The sentence only lasts 5 lines

>> No.6458585

>>6458325
Maybe don't edit someone who's published and instead, enjoy that shit

>> No.6459286

>start Blood Meridian
>completely drained after 30 pages
the barebones prose and dark plot have sapped my will to live

>> No.6459290

>>6456134

It's a gimmick.

>> No.6459590

>>6459286
>only thirty pages

Nigger the actual violence hasn't even happened yet

>> No.6459606

>go to local library
>check out Blood Meridian
>edit the entire book, in pen, and add grammar marks where they'd normally be
>return it
:^)

>> No.6459646

Quotation marks are a crutch.