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Help me, /lit/.
I've always had difficulty to appreciate the beauty of style, of prose itself without its meanings and images - cadence, rhythm, and the other mystical elements that make Nabokov's and Joyce's writing so pleasurable to you. I easily get the meaning, I can appreciate the images, if I am in the "imagining" mindset, but the rest just seems beyond my reach, even if I discard meaning completely and focus entirely on it.
Is there still hope? Is aesthetic appreciation innate or must it be developped?
In the later case, how do you read, /lit/? Explain it to me as if I had no clue how to read.
Picture hopefully not related.
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if you lose hope merely because reality disappoints you, then you never had hope, just optimistic expectations
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who is the guy in this pic
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>>8331259
I just had the optimistic assumption that I could learn to appreciate the beauty of style, but I am starting to doubt that.
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>>8332206
I didn't read your post I was just responding to the image
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>>8330915
hate to break it to you bro. you're a pleb.
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its not that big of a deal. you'd be surprised how many faggots use "muh prose style" to defend a shitty story
Literally no different than deviantart anime faggots scrambling to defend their nonsense in the face of skilled artists
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I'm still curious:
Have your appreciation of great style grown as you read more, or has it essentially remained the same? Are you moved by what you once thought was pointless and boring?
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plz
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>>8333349
I dont recall seeing any work as pointless or boring, if anything some works were just challenging to be due to my own reading level at the time, but once I broke past that barrier its all good.
Also, just read closely, very closely. Dont worry about subvocalizing, just reed and feel it out.
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