What is the most unique writing style you've ever seen?

This made me wonder if anyone's ever written a book without punctuation on purpose. Outside of some ancient writings where they didnt use punctuation at all

>>24501100
The Road by McCarthy but only kind of

>>24501100
I think that most. Modern authors tend to. Break up their sentences. Too much and just. For the dramatic effect.

>>24501100
Some of Faulkner's works to a certain degree

Also Timothy Dexter's book

>>24501055 (OP)
Greg's style does work. It’s jerky, but useable. Everyone should try it.

Henry James, for example. We should force him!

"No, Henry, think SHORTER".

He would go insane.

And serve him right.

>>24501055 (OP)
unironically mine at certain points. not saying it was good but it was unique. Other people probably wrote more “unique” stuff that they of course couldn’t publish.

>>24501157
Surprisingly smooth flow there. Could dig it, maybe. Quite Joycean in brevity. Leopold Bloom thoughts unfinished. Leaves to the imagination.

/g/ here. This guy's code comments and commit messages all have the same character count per line. It's beautiful.
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/e6f22569e9db16dbef7d9bdee5bb41b8cb7a03ca
Reproduced below, but unimpressive without monospaced rendering:


Back when our release 4.0.1 was being readied, sources
were sent to the TP (Translation Project). However one
person named Benno Schulenberg refused to release them
for translation. His stated reason was the top command
line help text which then finally included long forms.

He demanded that the help text be broken into separate
strings instead of a single large string. But, all the
top text (some much more complex) has just one string.
So that stated reason was, at the least, inconsistent.

[ I suspect the real reason was that Mr. Schulenberg ]
[ thought that the carefully right-justified English ]
[ wording would also be required of translations too ]

The bottom line was that Benno took it upon himself to
change the TP motto from "you code, we translate" into
"first we tell you how to code and then we translate".

Rather than bend a knee to that despot, I disabled the
text entirely, admittedly denying users a translation.
Now, with this commit we enable translatable help text
but with a hint included to ignore the justified text.

>>24501055 (OP)
>Go fuck yourself he
Peak

>>24501055 (OP)
Spinoza
Malcalypse
Joyce [hate him to be completely honest lol]

>>24501100
Septology by Jon Fosse

800 pages without a single full stop

What if I told you they all have names too?

>>24501055 (OP)
Writers with the most recognizable and distinctive writing styles are probably Celine, Stein and Mccarthy.

>>24501055 (OP)
this nigga yappin about gematria tho

>>24501055 (OP)
>try to find this post in 4chan archive
>couldn't find it
what went wrong

>>24502728
Greg found them both and raped them to death

>>24501100
Flowers for Algernon for constant misuse of punctuation.

>>24501208
This is shite. Anyways, Benno Schulenberg is an asshole. Probably doing his best to ruin free software. The GNU nano drama was caused by him too.

>>24502706
>Writers with the most recognizable and distinctive writing styles are probably Celine, Stein and Mccarthy.
Stein, maybe. McCarthy, somewhat, although lots of people have copied him (Daniel Woodrell for example).

Some writers you can identify with high probability from just a couple of lines:

— Emily Dickinson
Em-dash stands for EMILY-DASH!

— e. e. cummings
Lower case, no spaces after commas etc, typesetting messed about, basically looks like e. e. cummings.

— Damon Runyon
All present tense is pretty distinctive.

>>24502957
>Stein, maybe.
I was going to say you have not read Stein but then I read the rest of your post, you have no idea what style is. But, by your idea of style, Stein was fairly fond of spaces before punctuation marks and she used it well.

>>24501100
jose saramago won a nobel for literature and will only press enter for a new paragraph once every 10 pages or so, with maybe 4 periods in those pages. That goes for basically all of his books.

>>24502957
I meant style is in Author's voice. A distinct and recognizable voice makes a style unique; it's not just typography.

>>24502957
Daniel woodrell didn't copy him though. He homages him in some of his descriptions but Mccarthy's influence on him is tertiary.

>>24501100
You could probably get away with using capitalization instead of periods For example this reads just as well as if I had inserted a period The problem occurs when you need to use proper nouns.

>>24503240
>this reads just as well as if I had inserted a period

No. No it doesn't.

>>24501100
I, on the other hand, am completely and utterly, absolutely, to say, opposed to that idea; i belive literature can only thrive, nay, live, even, through long, winding sentences that never seem to end, hypnotizing the reader in a labyrinth of letters, words and prose, only ever half-broken by constant punctuation marks and semicolons, but eventually ending, like a novella of it's own, leaving the reader dumbfounded, angry or ideally, elated to have stumbled on such piece of prose by accident or by purpose.

>>24501055 (OP)
Celine's "D'un chateau l'autre"
It's utter shit. At least in french, it's like seeing boomers writing on facebook, horrendeous.
Pretty unique nonetheless

>>24503953
The Stein and Gass influence undercuts your sentence, you are not them, stop trying to write like them. I struggle with this particular affliction as well,

>>24504346
That's more beckett than stein

>>24504995
I don't really see much Beckett, On the whole it is Gass but "i believe literature can only thrive, nay, live, even" is pure Stein. What is the Beckett influence you see?

>>24502728
Were you looking for it on /lit/'s archive? The post numbers are too high for it to be from here

>>24505073
Gass sounds like Beckett half the time. The constant interruptions with clauses but still following linearity is very Beckettian.

For example:
>And if all muck is the same muck that doesn’t matter, it’s good to have a change of muck, to move from one heap to another a little further on, from time to time, fluttering you might say, like a butterfly, as if you were ephemeral. And if you are wrong, and you are wrong, I mean when you record circumstances better left unspoken, and leave unspoken others, rightly, if you like, but how shall I say, for no good reason, yes, rightly, but for no good reason, as for example that new moon, it is often in good faith, excellent faith. Had there then elapsed, between that night on the mountain, that night when I saw A and C and then made up my mind to go and see my mother, and this other night, more time than I had thought, namely fourteen full days, or nearly?

>>24501142
>>24501157
>>24501205
Style, reminiscent of Spongebob. Speech, broken by "raspberries". Darmok, Picard, at Tanagra. Quite nice, this style.

>>24505131
That has been a common technique since well before Beckett, James did it a good amount and we see more James in that post and in Gass than Beckett. You are reducing things to a simplistic view of sentence structure, ignoring how idea is presented and evolved. You are doing better than the anons itt who reduce style to punctuation but you are still ignoring the semantics.

>>24505171
I know what I am talking about and you are not well versed James it seems because that's not how he wrote. James uses a highly hypotactic style but his clauses are not strung linearly like Beckett's. I am not saying Beckett alone wrote like that, his syntax is actually quite similar to 17th century essayist Joseph Addison, but Beckett is a valid point of reference for the post in question, and not just Stein or Gass like you implied.

Besides that, Gass' later books like the Tunnel and Middle C affect a Beckettian voice frequently, so even if my post was hyperbolic to some degree it has some truth in it.

>>24501157
>Greg's style does work.
You used five words.
>It’s jerky, but useable.
Five words, once again

Please never use Greg.'s style ever again.

>>24505561
You are just trying to bluff your way out, hence the "even if I was wrong I was still right" disclaimer you tacked on. James wrote plenty of such linear sentences.

I have no idea why you think Beckett is a valid point of reference and others are not and you are still reducing style to sentence structure removed from semantics.

>>24505637
Lol. I am trying to bluff? Why don't you post one of these "many such linear sentences" from Henry James?

You're the one who said that there was no Beckett influence. I merely showed that there was. Don't try to backpedal now. As far as being right or wrong is concerned, I already put that to bed.

this guy

>>24505721
Where did I say there was no Beckett influence? I said that I did not see MUCH Beckett influence and pointed out that your example reduced style to a simplistic view of sentence structure and explained why. But I guess pointing out what I literally said is backpedaling? I have to forget what I said and accept your moving of the goalposts?

>>24505626
Morphemes and words are not the same thing

>>24505795
Backpedalling

>>24505637
>>24505795
boring and predictable narcissism in action

margrette dumas

>>24501100
Autumn of the Patriarch looked like it averaged less than 1 period per page with no paragraph breaks in any of its chapters.
>>24501055 (OP)
Arno Schmidt

>>24505780
dayum

>>24502815
>>24501208

/pol/ here. every single time.

>>24501100
faulkner and mccarthy

>>24501157
This is just a Paul Skallas tweet

>>24502656
Based scandi chad

>>24506828
>Faulkner
This fucker spams punctuation like no tomorrow

I'm sharing this to piss you guys off the same way it did to me

>>24501055 (OP)
Off the top of my head Cormac McCarthy, Bronze age pervert.

>>24502815
(((Schulenberg))). Along with 'witz and 'stein.

>>24508504
>German surnames
anon is wise to the ways of the Eternal Teuton

>>24501100
Saramago's books have barely any punctuation

>>24501055 (OP)
Celine (and that's a good thing)
Edith Stein (and that's an autistic thing)

>>24502706
True.

>>24504224
Filtré but agree it's the worst of its trilogy and Féerie 1/2 are better in the later style

>>24501055 (OP)
Sadly, Porn is written in such a way that the footnotes were pages long and random cuck porn was spliced into it, particularly at the beginning and the end of the book. Cool book overall (if you like a lacanian analysis of life and why almost everything is, sadly, porn).

>>24501100
Christ versus Arizona is a 200 page single sentence

>>24501147
He was too based to live desu

>>24501100
That's Krasznahorkai's schtick

>>24505626
Contractions are one word. Anon did nothing wrong.