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Anonymous Sun Dec 18 22:22:33 2016 No.8859875 [Reply] [Original]

>"The silence was deafening"

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 22:23:37 2016 No.8859881 It's a metaphor you retarded frogposter

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 22:24:01 2016 No.8859882 >The silence was very quiet

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 22:24:56 2016 No.8859885 silence does some weird shit to your ears man. total silence makes people fall over and hear their own blood.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 22:25:19 2016 No.8859886 >>8859881 not one you use if you intend to get published once. nothing screams amature and cringe as stale metaphors

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 18 22:29:42 2016 No.8859894 >>8859886 tell that to the blogging """industry"""

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 07:46:28 2016 No.8860933 >>8859875 which book?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 07:49:10 2016 No.8860937 >>8859881 >doesn't have tinnitus

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 07:49:13 2016 No.8860938 >the darkness was blinding

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 07:55:20 2016 No.8860947 >>8859886 Nothing screams amature and cringe as much as try-hard attempts at originality. Some idioms and metaphors simply work in context. If being fresh and new is your only metric of quality, you might as well go invent your own fucking language.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 07:59:15 2016 No.8860955 >>8859885 t. Buzzfeed

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 08:03:33 2016 No.8860962 >i have to shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 08:43:29 2016 No.8861040 >EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 08:54:05 2016 No.8861062 File: 80 KB, 625x626, 1440360997366.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Call me Ishmael

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 08:55:23 2016 No.8861063 I'm rereading The Road and thought 'a blackness to hurt your ears with listening' was a great version of this shitty old trope.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 08:56:01 2016 No.8861065 The virginity was orgasmic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 09:05:55 2016 No.8861089 >>8860955 This guy. Everytime.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 09:20:47 2016 No.8861109 File: 82 KB, 680x680, vomit chan.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8859875 >the empty void

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 09:24:01 2016 No.8861119 >>8860938 that makes sense tho

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 09:27:16 2016 No.8861128 >"I listened but I did not hear." B R A V O

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 09:39:17 2016 No.8861152 >the OP was pepe

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 15:17:59 2016 No.8862084 >>8859875 It's called white noise.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 15:20:56 2016 No.8862093 stretched his legs

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 21:17:58 2016 No.8863180 >>8860947 >there is no middle ground between writing only in cliches and being totally original >any attempt to find one makes you a tryhard

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 21:22:16 2016 No.8863199 The silence screamed across the sky.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 21:22:36 2016 No.8863202 File: 6 KB, 225x225, 1479087165732.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >A shot rang out.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 21:26:40 2016 No.8863208 >>8861152

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 21:29:27 2016 No.8863219 File: 242 KB, 800x800, 1446342745849.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >The silence is mine

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 21:30:22 2016 No.8863225 >>8863202 >across the land

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 21:32:49 2016 No.8863238 File: 89 KB, 679x657, This is totally not good.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Was met with

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 21:37:26 2016 No.8863266 File: 104 KB, 320x287, 1362347393682.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >A screaming comes across the sky

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 22:04:29 2016 No.8863349 >the fact that

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 22:07:20 2016 No.8863351 >>8859875 >the disdain is crippling

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 22:21:17 2016 No.8863383 >Once upon a time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 22:33:26 2016 No.8863426 >boiling blood

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 23:51:39 2016 No.8863636 >>8863349 This. Who /Elements of Style/ here?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 23:55:30 2016 No.8863641 >>8863636 >Not Sense of Style

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 23:57:12 2016 No.8863644 >>8863351 >crippling depression

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 00:39:33 2016 No.8863753 Sing, O goddess

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 01:35:22 2016 No.8863857 >>8859875 >The meme was lit

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 01:37:03 2016 No.8863859 >>8859875 >"The deaf were silenced"

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 01:42:40 2016 No.8863882 >>8863219 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2dTh3iI0is8