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How can I write as corncobbily as le corncob man? Should I eat corn everyday? Anyone got any recommendations for a daily corn regimen?

>> No.7926793

>>7926783
Imagine that you're retarded or a child or a retarded child. Then write your thoughts as this retarded child down on paper.

>> No.7927297

>>7926783
>thinking the nickname had to do with the *eating* of corn.

>> No.7927408

>>7926783
>How can I write as corncobbily as le corncob man?
Just read Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars Commentary

>> No.7927785

>>7927408
kek

>> No.7927793

>>7926783
What does 'corncobby' even mean as a criticism? Seriously.

>> No.7927808

>>7927793
found the corncobber guys everyone point and laugh

>> No.7927821

>>7927793
Faulkner's most commercially successful novel, Sanctuary, involves someone getting raped with a corncob. This was admittedly sensationalist, though he intended it to be (he was playing with the pulp genre, and he was also fed up with the publishing industry and did it with a sort "I'll give the people what they want" attitude"). This was one of the novels of his that Nabokov read and, likely recognizing the sensationalism of the corncob, used it as a criticism of all of his work (corncobby chronicles, etc). Now it's a meme that most people don't even understand the origin of.

>> No.7927823

>>7927408
" it's doesn't mean corn! It's grain! Grain!"
Butthurt-face.jpg

>> No.7927824

>>7927821
Thanks a.non. You are truly not a faggot.

>> No.7927829

>>7927821
Wow. Good to know that. Thanks for sharing some info anon.

>> No.7927848

>>7927821
It also has connotations of rusticity i.e. corncob pipes, so it labels Faulkner as a 'regional' writer too concerned with social issues for Nabokov's taste.

>'I imagine that this kind of thing (white trash, velvety Negroes, those bloodhounds out of Uncle Tom’s Cabin melodramas, steadily baying through thousands of swampy books) may be necessary in a social sense, but it is not literature'

>> No.7928271

>>7926783
>How can I write as corncobbily as le corncob man?
First: imagine yourself as one of the greatest writers the english language has has ever seen. Second: write like that.