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Anonymous Fri Feb 22 22:43:11 2019 No.12646925 [Reply] [Original]

>prose is more important than plot

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 22:45:37 2019 No.12646935 File: 34 KB, 750x382, f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >plot is more important than characters

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 22:54:48 2019 No.12646976 File: 451 KB, 698x918, angry.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >characters are more important than theme

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 23:06:53 2019 No.12647041 File: 1.16 MB, 200x200, 3028FB2B-2FD3-4B98-873D-3717120F21C5.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12646976 >characters are theme

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 23:09:25 2019 No.12647052 prose trumps all

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 23:12:05 2019 No.12647065 >>12647052 ive always thought prose meant an original way an author speaks through what he writes, but when i looked the word up it only meant anything that is not poetry. what does /lit/ think prose is?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 23:12:38 2019 No.12647066 >THERE'S A PLOT HOLE IN THIS STORY >THEREFORE IT IS INFERIOR TO ANIME

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 23:14:23 2019 No.12647077 >>12647065 /lit/ misuses it, like using 'kino' as an adjective The word they're looking for is 'style'

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 23:18:15 2019 No.12647094 >>12647077 Style is absolutely better than substance, so I don't know if it is an adequate replacement.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 23:23:03 2019 No.12647111 >>12646925 Without good prose, nothing else is dressed well. Though theme & narrative > prose, so long as the writer can in fact write. >>>Plot<<< doesn't mean anything, literature isn't soap opera or anime

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 23:32:36 2019 No.12647166 >>12647094 What? No it isn't. Spewing pretty words without arriving to a point is like masturbating to your reflection. Leave that to self-centered imbeciles.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 23:44:07 2019 No.12647222 >>12647166 Pontificated like a true anachronism.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 22 23:50:10 2019 No.12647241 >>12647111 I mean, in any book thats worth a damn that's not just the writer pontificating on something the plot should be directly interwoven with the themes and narrative. They should be nearly inseparable.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 23 00:02:03 2019 No.12647276 aesthetic is the only meaningful quality

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 23 00:23:01 2019 No.12647348 >>12647094 That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that /lit/ talks about authors' prose, when they really mean authors' style

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 23 02:30:13 2019 No.12647676 File: 214 KB, 699x919, 1512346334073.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >fiction is more important than non-fiction

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 23 05:18:14 2019 No.12648017 >>12647676 rec me some good non-fiction, m8

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 23 05:54:43 2019 No.12648108 >>12647111 The prose of Frank Herbert's work is generally dull and repetitive, but his plots were original and engaging. Most scifi greats had dreadful prose.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 23 06:24:40 2019 No.12648215 >>12648017 Fear and Trembling

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 23 06:26:15 2019 No.12648223 >>12648017 The ego and its own.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 23 06:50:28 2019 No.12648295 >>12648215 >philosophy >non-fiction lmao

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 23 07:20:02 2019 No.12648411 >>12648295 >anything >non-fiction lmao

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 23 08:28:42 2019 No.12648687 >>12648411 >anything >fiction lmao

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 23 09:03:47 2019 No.12648849 >>12648687 We literally dont know that the events of any fiction story happened or not. So they're all nonfiction