today's fun update is that there is one chapter that consists of one sentence and then two pages of footnotes and those footnotes are formatted like a newspaper clipping because by that time everyone's default response to my constant wilding out had become "look sure whatever"
Rebecca F. Kuangx.comtoday's fun update is that there is one chapter that consists of one sentence and then two pages of footnotes and those footnotes are formatted like a newspaper clipping because by that time everyone's default response to my constant wilding out had become "look sure whatever"
Queneau’s stochastic method might put you in mind of one of those invariably lame improvisational comedy setups whereby a performer has to switch registers according to an audience’s shouted commands — delivering, say, a funeral eulogy first as infomercial sales patter, then as rap-battle braggadocio, then as bawdy Elizabethan comedy. And the book... See more
Staff Pick: Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau - The Millions
"Can I just say though that I hate the word metamodernism? If we’re going to try to define this era of literature I’d rather keep the Enlightenment going."
What is modern literature anyway?
But running through it, from the first story to the last (written seven years or so later) was this desire to somehow carve out a new space for myself via the sound of the sentences. I didn’t care if they were conventionally beautiful (they weren’t) – I just wanted for them to call attention to themselves. That was my benchmark: is there anything
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