Thread 24733030

who comes to mind when you hear "elegant prose"?

>>24733030 (OP)
Proust. The most elegant prose I've ever read. He could be writing about some gay ass bullshit like lying in a bed and make it the best thing you've read in months.

Me.

Melville

>>24733039
POAST PROSE NOW!

>>24733030 (OP)
That guy who wrote Lolita
I never even read it, only bits and pieces, but man, that guy had a way with words

>>24733030 (OP)
Kipling and Hawthorne

>>24733030 (OP)
Cute feet

>>24733030 (OP)
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

What's the word for people who care more about plot and story than beauty of prose?

>>24733044
Just did.

my diary desu

>>24733081
You’re a cow wart. You’ll get milked in a second.

>>24733087
that nasty prose not elegant, guy

>>24733088
I never said I had good prose. That original replied did. You’re a cow wart too.

>>24733030 (OP)
Unreadable and pretentious trash

>>24733090
i didn't imply u did guy, i only implied ur prose was nasty, guy. ur a nasty fellow, guy. take a deep breath.

>>24733102
You don’t know what imply means. Still a cow wart too.

>>24733103
strange fascination with bovine maladies. very gross, guy.

>>24733109
I don’t see no ladies here. Why you say Mah ladies. You not a cow wart anymore if you can point the way

>>24733112
That was so cringe that I'm done fucking around with you and abandoning this thread. Good day, sir.

>>24733117
>cringe
What kind of faggot announces that they’re leaving? Do you have Asperger’s? Still a cow wart btw

>>24733030 (OP)
Cather. No other author places me into the world of whatever novel they’re writing than she does

>>24733099
low iq cope
stick to social media shitposts

>>24733044
Just something from a novel I'm working on
>The Larcener tried to let a vaguely sincere expression scurry onto his face, where it froze in evident discomfort. His shrug was theatrically casual.

>“There are, ah, problems with the boy, yes. But the problems are unique to his situation in my care. Were he under yours, I’m sure they would, ahhhh, vanish.”

>“Oh. You have a magic boy. Why didn’t you say so?” The priest scratched his forehead beneath the white silk blindfold that covered his eyes. “Magnificent. I’ll plant him in the bloody ground and grow a vine to an enchanted land beyond the clouds.”

>“Ahhhhh! I’ve tasted that flavor of sarcasm before, Marko.” The Larcener gave him a mock bow. “That’s the sort you spit out as a bargaining posture. Is it really so hard to say that you’re interested?”

>The Eyeless Priest shrugged. “Suppose Janus, Cassidy and Jobe might be able to use a new playmate, or at least a new punching bag. Suppose I’m willing to spend about three coppers and a bowl of piss for the mystery boy. But you’ll still need to convince me that you deserve the bowl of piss. What’s his problem?”

>“His problem,” said the Larcener, “is that if I can’t sell him to you, I’m going to have to slit his throat and throw him in the bay. And I'll have to do it tonight.”

>>24733150
This is the writing of a cow wart.

>>24733037
Have you read Proust in french? How can you judge prose from a translation?

>>24733197
Ok then I think of C.K. Moncrieff when I hear 'elegant prose"

>>24733030 (OP)
effeminate men with delicate fingers and ruffled dress shirts with puffy sleeves

>>24733030 (OP)
Burke

>>24733030 (OP)
Stoner or Hawthorne.

Samuel Johnson. Also Edward Gibbon in his Decline And Fall. Basically the English Enlightenment, all those guys were 10/10 prose writers.

>>24733030 (OP)
A Defense of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney. Its a quick read, here is the Gutenberg link:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1962/pg1962-images.html
>>24733232
Yah. A few years back a read a bunch of The Spectator (Addison and Steele), and the prose was phenomenal.
>>24733216
And Burke. I still remember reading Reflection on the Revolution in France, and it was an incredible read.

>>24733030 (OP)
This.

>>24733065
Aristotle

>>24733030 (OP)
Clark Ashton Smith. Some of his short fiction is pulp slop, but I'll be danged if his prose poetry isn't some of the prettiest prose I've ever seen in my life.

>>24733030 (OP)
>The fundamental defect of the female character is a lack of a sense of justice. This originates first and foremost in their want of rationality and capacity for reflexion but it is strengthened by the fact that, as the weaker sex, they are driven to rely not on force but on cunning: hence their instinctive subtlety and their ineradicable tendency to tell lies: for, as nature has equipped the lion with claws and teeth, the elephant with tusks, the wild boar with fangs, the bull with horns and the cuttlefish with ink, so it has equipped woman with the power of dissimulation as her means of attack and defence, and has transformed into this gift all the strength it has bestowed on man in the form of physical strength and the power of reasoning. Dissimulation is thus inborn in her and consequently to be found in the stupid woman almost as often as in the clever one. To make use of it at every opportunity is as natural to her as it is for an animal to employ its means of defence whenever it is attacked, and when she does so she feels that to some extent she is only exercising her rights. A completely truthful woman who does not practice dissimulation is perhaps an impossibility, which is why women see through the dissimulation of others so easily it is inadvisable to attempt it with them. – But this fundamental defect which I have said they possess, together with all that is associated with it, gives rise to falsity, unfaithfulness, treachery, ingratitude, etc. Women are guilty of perjury far more often than men. It is questionable whether they ought to be allowed to take an oath at all.”

>>24733312
Waldun got really good

Nabokov, Graham Greene, Angela Carter