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That was some purple ass prose. Solid story, compelling themes, satisfying dialogue, but that dizzyingly flowery narration...

Might a good time for a Hemingway.

>> No.16149225

Cite a sentence or two of purple porse

>> No.16149229

>>16149214
Brainlet

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16149233

>purple prose

>> No.16149238

>>16149214
Read the rest of his work, it's much better.

Gatsby -> This Side of Paradise -> The Beautiful and Damned -> Tender Is the Night

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>>16149225
>>16149229
>>16149233
Holy triggered.

>> No.16149260

Boring characters, soap opera drama, hackneyed themes.

>> No.16149270

>>16149259
hey i'm purple prose post guy, im not triggered, i never read the book, i actually want examples...

>> No.16149776

“So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her.”

>> No.16149839

>>16149776
that's poetry.
DUMdaDUMda.
DUMdada DUM da DUM .....
DUMdaDUMda.
The information resonates within the style. you can actually hear the tuning-fork until "star" is spoken and ends. Full Stop. Repetition of the metre that was initially established. Boom. Waiting, anticipation, reward. The symbolism is there and in sync with the novel's basic themes.

>> No.16149917

Opinions on whether "purple prose" is good flip every 15 IQ points

>> No.16149980

>>16149839
The fuck's a tuning fork got to do with anything.

>> No.16149985

>>16149980
Probably a reference to the music of the spheres

>> No.16149989

>>16149980
Music, fading impression, stars... I vaguely remember the scene, if I'm not mistaken. I would need the whole page to see the context again. (Could just be I'm being baited and this sentences is from The Fault In Our Stars or some shit. Still a good sentence.)

>> No.16150049

>If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . .