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Mar. 30th, 2011 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI just finally managed to finish one of the books off the reading list for The Novel.
I think the only really memorable bit of the whole 180 page thing was the bit where he took time out in a footnote to say that a novelist he'd spent most of a hundred pages going on about as So Cool and such a great formal stylist and crafting work carefully over ages of agonising over every word in his pursuit of elegant greatness might, just possibly, have spent all that time in his study asleep and/or masturbating.
It's elevated contributions like this that make me so glad I read theory.
I think the only really memorable bit of the whole 180 page thing was the bit where he took time out in a footnote to say that a novelist he'd spent most of a hundred pages going on about as So Cool and such a great formal stylist and crafting work carefully over ages of agonising over every word in his pursuit of elegant greatness might, just possibly, have spent all that time in his study asleep and/or masturbating.
It's elevated contributions like this that make me so glad I read theory.