who comes to mind when you hear "elegant prose"?
>>24733030Proust. The most elegant prose I've ever read. He could be writing about some gay ass bullshit like lying in a bed and make it the best thing you've read in months.
Me.
Melville
>>24733039POAST PROSE NOW!
>>24733030That guy who wrote LolitaI never even read it, only bits and pieces, but man, that guy had a way with words
>>24733030Kipling and Hawthorne
>>24733030Cute feet
>>24733030Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
What's the word for people who care more about plot and story than beauty of prose?
>>24733044Just did.
my diary desu
>>24733081You’re a cow wart. You’ll get milked in a second.
>>24733087that nasty prose not elegant, guy
>>24733088I never said I had good prose. That original replied did. You’re a cow wart too.
>>24733030Unreadable and pretentious trash
>>24733090i didn't imply u did guy, i only implied ur prose was nasty, guy. ur a nasty fellow, guy. take a deep breath.
>>24733102You don’t know what imply means. Still a cow wart too.
>>24733103strange fascination with bovine maladies. very gross, guy.
>>24733109I don’t see no ladies here. Why you say Mah ladies. You not a cow wart anymore if you can point the way
>>24733112That was so cringe that I'm done fucking around with you and abandoning this thread. Good day, sir.
>>24733117>cringeWhat kind of faggot announces that they’re leaving? Do you have Asperger’s? Still a cow wart btw
>>24733030Cather. No other author places me into the world of whatever novel they’re writing than she does
>>24733099low iq cope stick to social media shitposts
>>24733044Just something from a novel I'm working on>The Larcener tried to let a vaguely sincere expression scurry onto his face, where it froze in evident discomfort. His shrug was theatrically casual.>“There are, ah, problems with the boy, yes. But the problems are unique to his situation in my care. Were he under yours, I’m sure they would, ahhhh, vanish.”>“Oh. You have a magic boy. Why didn’t you say so?” The priest scratched his forehead beneath the white silk blindfold that covered his eyes. “Magnificent. I’ll plant him in the bloody ground and grow a vine to an enchanted land beyond the clouds.”>“Ahhhhh! I’ve tasted that flavor of sarcasm before, Marko.” The Larcener gave him a mock bow. “That’s the sort you spit out as a bargaining posture. Is it really so hard to say that you’re interested?”>The Eyeless Priest shrugged. “Suppose Janus, Cassidy and Jobe might be able to use a new playmate, or at least a new punching bag. Suppose I’m willing to spend about three coppers and a bowl of piss for the mystery boy. But you’ll still need to convince me that you deserve the bowl of piss. What’s his problem?”>“His problem,” said the Larcener, “is that if I can’t sell him to you, I’m going to have to slit his throat and throw him in the bay. And I'll have to do it tonight.”
>>24733150This is the writing of a cow wart.
>>24733037Have you read Proust in french? How can you judge prose from a translation?
>>24733197Ok then I think of C.K. Moncrieff when I hear 'elegant prose"
>>24733030effeminate men with delicate fingers and ruffled dress shirts with puffy sleeves
>>24733030Burke
>>24733030Stoner or Hawthorne.
Samuel Johnson. Also Edward Gibbon in his Decline And Fall. Basically the English Enlightenment, all those guys were 10/10 prose writers.
>>24733030A Defense of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney. Its a quick read, here is the Gutenberg link:https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1962/pg1962-images.html>>24733232Yah. A few years back a read a bunch of The Spectator (Addison and Steele), and the prose was phenomenal.>>24733216And Burke. I still remember reading Reflection on the Revolution in France, and it was an incredible read.
>>24733030This.
>>24733065Aristotle
