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8330915 No.8330915 [Reply] [Original]

Help me, /lit/.

I've always had difficulty to appreciate the beauty of style, of prose itself without its meanings and images - cadence, rhythm, and the other mystical elements that make Nabokov's and Joyce's writing so pleasurable to you. I easily get the meaning, I can appreciate the images, if I am in the "imagining" mindset, but the rest just seems beyond my reach, even if I discard meaning completely and focus entirely on it.

Is there still hope? Is aesthetic appreciation innate or must it be developped?

In the later case, how do you read, /lit/? Explain it to me as if I had no clue how to read.

Picture hopefully not related.

>> No.8331259

if you lose hope merely because reality disappoints you, then you never had hope, just optimistic expectations

>> No.8331391

who is the guy in this pic

>> No.8332206

>>8331259
I just had the optimistic assumption that I could learn to appreciate the beauty of style, but I am starting to doubt that.

>> No.8332262

>>8332206
I didn't read your post I was just responding to the image

>> No.8332300

>>8330915
hate to break it to you bro. you're a pleb.

>> No.8332659

its not that big of a deal. you'd be surprised how many faggots use "muh prose style" to defend a shitty story

Literally no different than deviantart anime faggots scrambling to defend their nonsense in the face of skilled artists

>> No.8333349

I'm still curious:

Have your appreciation of great style grown as you read more, or has it essentially remained the same? Are you moved by what you once thought was pointless and boring?

>> No.8334555

bump

>> No.8335631
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8335631

plz

>> No.8336637

>>8333349
I dont recall seeing any work as pointless or boring, if anything some works were just challenging to be due to my own reading level at the time, but once I broke past that barrier its all good.

Also, just read closely, very closely. Dont worry about subvocalizing, just reed and feel it out.