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It's no more difficult than Tolkien. Prose from that era was practically poetry. Of course, I grew up reading a lot of books and short stories from that era, s
by morganvachon 9y ago
It's no more difficult than Tolkien. Prose from that era was practically poetry.
Of course, I grew up reading a lot of books and short stories from that era, so maybe it's easier for my old brain, like riding a bicycle.
- hashkb 9y agoLike reading a bicycle.
- alkonaut 9y agoThat's what I should have responded when my fifth grade teacher always wrote "NEW SENTENCE!" in the margin, if you stacked that many sentence commas. I should have said "it's practically poetry" :)
- taneq 9y agoBasically everything they teach you in school is ignored by successful authors at times, but you've got to know the rules before you can know when to break them.
- rsynnott 9y agoI think this particular quote is _considerably_ more over-the-top than Tolkien, certainly. Though I do like "crushing the frantic penguins".