So, she's translated Flaubert and Proust, she has a huge

Brevity is the soul of wit.

>>9496127
Here is one of her stories:

Judgement

Into how small a space the word judgement can be compressed: it must fit inside the brain of a ladybug as she, before my eyes, makes a decision.

>>9496127
>literally sometimes one or two sentences
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

>>9496131
>if you're going to be lazy at least be honest about it.

>>9496194
>translated In Search of Lost Time
>lazy

>>9496200
You really fucked yourself with this one.

>>9496131
Or, as I say, "Brevity..."

>>9496127
>So, she's translated Flaubert and Proust, she has a huge collected stories publication that one numerous international prizes, she is considered one of the foremost prose stylists of our time.

But can she see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

>>9496133
That colon is ON FUCKING POINT though. I'd buy a copy just to hang it above my computer.

>>9496133
Kinda japanese

Do you think women go around thinking about ladybugs and judgment? What woman have you ever met who does that? They go shopping, buy lipsticks, talk about how much they love cake.

She is still just a woman playing pretend. Women do not have those kind of literary thoughts but because they're trained to be such militant feminists with chips on their shoulder, they are sometimes good at pretending to be men.

>>9496127
If those one or two sentences are really good, what's the problem? You're not particularly up to date when it comes to writing, it seems.

>>9496133
>she

>>9496523
>>>/pol/

>>9496704

>you get offended and redirect every triggering post that you see

protip: you're worse than he is

>>9496127
Her stories are great.

>>9496700
>ladybug

Fuck off.

>>9496990
>>>/pol/

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>>9496990
>"protip"
>leddit spacing

>>9496523
kek

>>9496133
Is this just saying that anything can judge and be judged?

>>9497548
Did you just assume the gender of that insect? Just because it's pretty and might take a long time to make up its tiny mind?

>>9496127
she's also a really humble/nice person irl

>>9496127
If you've read her longer stories you know she can do the work, so the flash shit isn't so annoying cause she clearly isn't a dumb college student who thinks she invented a new an exciting form of laziness.

>>9496133
Trite

>>9496133
Postmodernism was a mistake

>>9496133
This is good

>>9496186
That was Hemingway's only story of such short length and was, iirc, written on a bet

>>9496133
Incorrect, ladybugs don't think in language.

I can't stand it when humanities majors try to pretend that nature is profound.

>>9500745
epic.............

>>9500745
>what is personification

>>9500751
Shit. Personification is shit.

>>9500698
>It's just a joke
>It's o-ok if it's just a joke

If it's so easy to do this, why can't you?

>>9500769
oh thanks professor

>>9496133
>one sentence that's better than everything everyone on /lit/ ever wrote
Pretty based.

>>9500779
I didn't say it was easy FOR ME, I said it was easy for Hemingway, whose specialty par excellence was minimalism. My point was that he only had to do it once to get the point across.

Also, it now occurs to me that that passage about a ladybug isn't even a short story. It has no narrative. It's some kind of anemic philosophical dissertation, at best.

>>9500835
The story isn't from Hemingway though.

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>>9496480
>>9496133
false, she separates the subject from the verb so she is super plebs

the CORRECT way is
it must fit inside the brain of a ladybug as she makes, before my eyes, a decision.

>>9500844
I was about to disagree with you, granting her the artistic license to make that grammatical error, but I actually prefer your sentence.

>>9500810
You're welcome.

>>9496133
i dont get it

what does this mean?

>>9500938
It means you need to go back to school

>>9500948
why?

>>9500957
It called a "joke". I can see how you miss the point of the example story with such a dim bulb going in your skull.

>>9500973
>It called a "joke". I can see how you miss the point of the example story with such a dim bulb going in your skull.

For all us dim bulbs. What does it mean?

>>9500983
What does what mean?

>>9500992
>Into how small a space the word judgement can be compressed: it must fit inside the brain of a ladybug as she, before my eyes, makes a decision.

>>9500997
What about it are you having trouble with?

>>9500938
>>9500997
it's about how the ladybug is judging her while she's judging the ladybug
it's not terribly clever but still managed to confuse you I guess

The word "judgment" is not being compressed though. It's the idea of judgment which is a very different thing. She seems like a hack if she mixed this up. The word is not being compressed because the ladybug thinks not in English nor any other human language.

>>9501019
>it's about how the ladybug is judging her while she's judging the ladybug

What, exactly, indicates that the ladybug is judging the narrator?

>>9501049
>as she, before my eyes, makes a decision

>decision
>a conclusion or resolution reached after consideration.

>>9501065
That just indicates that the ladybug is making a judgement, not that the ladybug is judging the narrator?

It seems to indicate to me that the narrator is simply observing the ladybug make a judgement

>>9500844
Yeah I'm with >>9500861.

>>9501068
it is a pun, sort of

>>9501100
What's the pun?

>>9501160
Judgement as in making a decision and weighing a life.