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yeah ive never managed to read tolkien ha ha ha

my wife read it as a kid and is a fan. but that might have more to do with wizards and magical elves and shit.

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i think for me the style that lets me enter is the one that gets to the point right away. by which i dont mean short length and concise sentences. it’s just that every word has to count for something.

not just colors and shapes and smells and shit like that but—ideas, a vision of the world, a point of view, that sort of thing.

this is why hemingway can start with the weather and take you there ha ha ha. his weather is not just “weather”.

and again is not just shortness. melville can ramble on and perorate but it’s all highly engaging.