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[palominocorn]

I want to have a few words with whoever decided that monotonous, stacatto writing (sentences of the same length and structure, paragraphs all the same size, rhythm like a flipping metronome) was Peak Writing and should be employed everywhere. In both fiction and technical writing.

Some of those words may include biting. Not sure yet.

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[stacys_musings]

Hemmingway wrote books. Those books were written with sentences. Those sentences were short. The sentences described bullfights, fishing, and fighting. Then along came a great writer named Thomas Pynchon who, likely under the influence of some mind-altering drug, wrote stories with characters like Benny Profane and Tyrone Slothrup, who demonstrated the impact of paranoia and developed the Proverbs for Paranoids ("If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers").

[palominocorn]

Thanks! I HATE IT.