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Way to blow up a point into absurd! Nabokov wrote about tiring of specific patterns and cliches obviously
by twelve40 2y ago
Way to blow up a point into absurd! Nabokov wrote about tiring of specific patterns and cliches obviously
- enriquec 2y agopretty cliche itself I'd say. Like a teen who thinks sarcasm is highbrow.
- ben_w 2y agoOne cannot write without tropes, and not only because the attempt itself is such a trope. That doesn't mean one cannot find Flanderization to be annoying, not even a decade (at least) before the character after which that TV Tropes entry was named, was created.
- cbolton 2y agoI don't think that is at all obvious from OP's comment. Reading "But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment" the straightforward interpretation is that the writer doesn't like when a prostitute is represented as soulful. If the problem is not the soulful prostitutes per se, but something more specific that makes it cliche, I think the quoted phrase could have expressed that better.