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my__name__is t1_ixwdjr5 wrote

Its a joy to read. If you don't find the style appealing, then I can see how it'd be hard to get through. Looking up some of the popular quotes:

>“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

That's a beautiful sentence.

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francisf0reverr OP t1_ixwg3qt wrote

Yesss that is definitely one of the good ones and there is a lot to be said for the majority of the writing

It just gets a bit awkward in places I find

"He could climb to it [...] and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder"

Eww😭

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