Prose analysis
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(April 27, 2020 10:48 PM)
Okay, poll closed. Horatio wins with 10 votes, closely followed by Styg.
My own choices were Styg, Klam and Jacky tying for first place, and Horatio and Morris tying for second.
Styg comes the closest to having a real style: his style defines him in a way that nobody else's does. Klam is not as much a stylist, but her style incorporates more thinking and more imagination. Styg's style cuts through to the essence of a thing; Klam's circles a concept or hypothesis sometimes, and generates new thinking. Philosophically, Klam is one of the best here. In terms of sheer correctness, Horatio actually makes fewer mistakes than either Styg or Klam, but he's not really a stylist. He writes functional English that gets the job done.
Jacky's style is very interesting, although I've only had a day or two to study it. Oddly enough, she writes better in the white heat of passion than when she's being self-consciously literary. She's not as committed to style as Styg, but she has terrific range. She can do cool satire, emotional celebration, and rapid-fire witty rejoinders with equal ease.
Damn, I forgot Corwin, who definitely goes in the top 4. A witty, clean, almost journalistic rather than literary style: rather like Styg's but cleaned up for Times or New Yorker publication (no salad tossing references). Incisive and brilliant.
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(April 27, 2020 11:04 PM)
These things take time. Some posts are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some posts are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
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Sophienoire — 5 years ago(April 27, 2020 11:08 PM)
I know, he has little time and leisure left for us silly folks on this message board and his presence is extremely missed, but the next time you are doing this poll again, or any poll really, it doesn't matter, you have to include His Saliency Vlad Putin, a brilliant mind, not fat at all, salient wordsmith and emperor. An all around sexy guy. Never forget.
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(April 27, 2020 11:13 PM)
Actually, yes. Putin's prose-style is quite distinctive and memorable. He uses a sort of Joycean stream-of-consciousness technique mixed with the sheer vulgar insanity of a Rabelais. It's just that he hasn't been around as much.
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Sophienoire — 5 years ago(April 27, 2020 11:18 PM)
i'm a fervent fan of his prosa and i read every single word of him he graces us with posting it in this godforsaken hellhole of a forum. it's what keeps me alive and going here. (and sometimes secretly while i'm actually gone forever)
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Sophienoire — 5 years ago(April 28, 2020 12:17 AM)
oh thats imdb1 i'm posting there a lot too, mostly when G drags me into one of her crazy rants and forces me to reply to it
so, yeah it's actually Gwnyc's board now.
i think tho that Monkeys won't allow more people registering accounts and has turned off registeration
https://imdb1.freeforums.net/board/4/soapbox
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pls don't tell anyone. i'm an intern, i need this jerb.