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Not the first to use the device of forgetting how to end a sentence. But nothing will convince me that someone will grab this out of the flames of civilisation's last library in order to preserve it.

 
Okay, wow, that is not an enjoyable paragraph. I do not think we would think highly of this on pop-ups. I guess it gets at the quesiton of whether writing is art or craft, is simple expression, or communication?
It's not unlike the old Peanuts comic, in which Linus shows Charley Brown a drawing of a person standing with their hands behind their back, and Charley Brown praises Linus, saying "I see what you're doing there, You drew him without hands because you're noting that man, ultimately, can't control the world around, that his grasp will always fail eventually and so, inevitably, he will cease to reach and try to grab his fate..."
To which Linus replies "I drew him like this because I can't draw hands."
 
Not the first to use the device of forgetting how to end a sentence. But nothing will convince me that someone will grab this out of the flames of civilisation's last library in order to preserve it.

I read about this. This is another example of breaking the rules of writing. If I wrote this, the agent would trash it.
 
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I read about this. This is another example of breaking the rules of writing. If I wrote this, the agent would trash it.
Unless you had run the gauntlet of "literary circles" for decades. Fawned on, courted the wealthy patrons, university and government funded circles that see you are recognised despite the lack of interest in you by plebeians. The foolproof way of getting that attention is to make sure you understand the tortured artistic souls of academic purgatory.
I'll take the judgement of Shakespeare's audience any day.385807989_7308394039189984_3316580154669039352_n.jpg
 
Unless you had run the gauntlet of "literary circles" for decades. Fawned on, courted the wealthy patrons, university and government funded circles that see you are recognised despite the lack of interest in you by plebeians. The foolproof way of getting that attention is to make sure you understand the tortured artistic souls of academic purgatory.
I'll take the judgement of Shakespeare's audience any day.View attachment 16657
Great quote!
 
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