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Delightfully meta at times, a fun read! I recently binged all of Jane Austen’s novels, and her dense prose is so chock full of clauses and sub clauses, that I l
by spudlyo 1y ago
Delightfully meta at times, a fun read! I recently binged all of Jane Austen’s novels, and her dense prose is so chock full of clauses and sub clauses, that I like feel she uses semicolons and emdashes the same way programmers might nest with braces.
- JadeNB 1y agoI know it's at best not quite off topic, but, if you like meta and you haven't already read it, then you will be delighted by "This is the title of this story, which is also found several times in the story itself" (https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/titleOfTheStory.html https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/tit...).
- mmooss 1y agoAnd Austen's writing is an all-time landmark of clarity. Maybe the issue is that clarity depends not on punctuation but on the writer.