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I used to mentally stick on writers like Tolkien, Fleming, Frank Herbert, Philip K Dick, because I had to reread their more dense passages multiple times, and e
by smcin 4y ago
I used to mentally stick on writers like Tolkien, Fleming, Frank Herbert, Philip K Dick, because I had to reread their more dense passages multiple times, and even then it was still unclear to me what specifically they were describing, but eventually I figured their intent was more to evoke whatever associations each individual reader made, than to clearly communicate the same thing. So then I decided that some fiction should be read differently, more casually and without an obsession with clarity, unlike non-fiction or technical stuff.
- smcin 4y agoActually, it's William Gibson's cyberpunk writing which turns up the dial on evocative-over-coherent to 11. It's a kaleidoscope of words seeking subjective associations in each reader's mind. There was one completely impenetrable section (Mona Lisa Overdrive, maybe?) the paragraph that contains "the armature of his pleasure" or something. Some random Gibson quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/9226.William_Gibson https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/9226.William_Gibson
- smcin 4y ago... "the coruscating armature of his pleasure", IIRC...