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10589349 No.10589349 [Reply] [Original]

>book's story is in past tense

>> No.10589363

>book's story

>> No.10589369
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10589369

>book's tense is in the past story

>> No.10589370

>not writing only in conditional/hypothetical
"You would be my creator, but I might possibly be your master; -- you would obey!"

>> No.10589392

>author needs story as a crutch

>> No.10589395

>the book has a story
disgusting

>> No.10589419

>book exists
how embarrassing

>> No.10589465

>book is actually a song

>> No.10589718

>books aren't in a fire

>> No.10589827

>the book has verbs

>> No.10590027

>>10589827
>the book, its verbs
>my hate for verbs, those lowly parts of speech
>plebs, their feeble minds, their pitiful need for verbs for self expression
>such books, their very existence, my silent disdain for their readers
>my pure, verbless prose, its gross misinterpretation by philistines
>alas

>> No.10590373

>>10589465
>pynchon reaccs

>> No.10590390

>He didn't invent a completely new tense for his book
pleb

>> No.10590401

>>10590390
>his book isn't a collection of words out of order that require unscrambling to read

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>>10590401
So Hegal, basically?

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>>10589349
>book doesn't have a TV or Movie adaption

>> No.10590654

>>10589370
kek

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10590662

>main character is a struggling writer

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10590667

>The book is filled with alliterations
More writers need to do this

>> No.10590679

don't know why you're making fun of "book's story". Makes perfect sense to me.

>> No.10590685

>>10590027

8/10 would actually read more if you kept writing in this style

>> No.10590686

>>10590557

>Hegal

Bugs... easy on the spelling

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>> No.10590703

>book has a story
>not just 1000 pages of flowery prose describing scenery
Get your pleb shit out of here

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10590836

> Writes about civil disobedience and related problems with America
> Neglects to build a shack in the woods first

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>>10590662
>>10590662
Ooooooh... That one always gets me

>> No.10590859

don't forget to post your funny thread on r/4chan fellas