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Anonymous Sat Dec 19 01:05:14 2015 No.7479721 [Reply] [Original]

Is there a bigger meme than "reading for prose"?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 01:08:22 2015 No.7479726 Fuck you for making another shit thread on lit you cunt

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 01:23:47 2015 No.7479758 >>7479726 >insinuating

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 01:26:03 2015 No.7479766 File: 202 KB, 717x880, 1450248608006.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] pic related 2bh

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 01:26:58 2015 No.7479770 >>7479766 It sure is getting Reddit in here. Reddit exclusively reads for prose, tbqh

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 01:40:52 2015 No.7479793 >>7479721 Yes there is, it's reading for "story".

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 01:42:50 2015 No.7479799 >>7479793 You mean "plot," you utter tool.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 02:10:07 2015 No.7479866 >>7479721 Is there a definitive way to describe McCarthy and Faulkners prose? I always end up referring to it as being very candid but also very vivid. I want to find more prose like in Suttree.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 02:22:20 2015 No.7479885 >>7479866 The term is "garbage"

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 02:25:23 2015 No.7479889 >>7479885 ebin

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 04:42:35 2015 No.7480152 >>7479866 >very candid but also very vivid Canvid? Vidid?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 09:24:20 2015 No.7480574 >>7479799 It's actually "reading poetry"

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 09:27:15 2015 No.7480580 >>7480574 >implying poetry isn't the pinnacle of literature

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 09:40:25 2015 No.7480612 >>7479866 monolithic is the word that comes to my mind. his description feels engraved in a stone tablet.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 09:45:35 2015 No.7480622 >>7480580 >implying poetry in 2015 isn't all self-indulgent masturbatory shite

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 19 10:00:29 2015 No.7480657 >>7480622 >tfw this is true What are some contemporary poets I can read, analyze, and then do the opposite of?