So, she's translated Flaubert and Proust, she has a huge collected stories publication that one numerous international prizes, she is considered one of the foremost prose stylists of our time.
How the FUCK does she get away with writing stories that are literally sometimes one or two sentences?
Connor Green
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Jose Morgan
Here is one of her stories:
Judgement
Into how small a space the word judgement can be compressed: it must fit inside the brain of a ladybug as she, before my eyes, makes a decision.
Josiah Evans
>literally sometimes one or two sentences For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
Landon Gutierrez
>if you're going to be lazy at least be honest about it.
Oliver Taylor
>translated In Search of Lost Time >lazy
Grayson Gomez
You really fucked yourself with this one.
Robert Ramirez
Or, as I say, "Brevity..."
Justin Stewart
>So, she's translated Flaubert and Proust, she has a huge collected stories publication that one numerous international prizes, she is considered one of the foremost prose stylists of our time.
But can she see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
Andrew Hill
That colon is ON FUCKING POINT though. I'd buy a copy just to hang it above my computer.
Landon Wright
Kinda japanese
Lucas Diaz
Do you think women go around thinking about ladybugs and judgment? What woman have you ever met who does that? They go shopping, buy lipsticks, talk about how much they love cake.
She is still just a woman playing pretend. Women do not have those kind of literary thoughts but because they're trained to be such militant feminists with chips on their shoulder, they are sometimes good at pretending to be men.
Sebastian Roberts
If those one or two sentences are really good, what's the problem? You're not particularly up to date when it comes to writing, it seems.
Colton Butler
>she
Aiden Jones
...
Luke Sullivan
>you get offended and redirect every triggering post that you see
protip: you're worse than he is
Adrian Sanchez
Her stories are great.
Ayden Ross
>ladybug
Fuck off.
Jacob Perry
...
Parker Bailey
>"protip" >leddit spacing
Lincoln Peterson
kek
Gabriel King
Is this just saying that anything can judge and be judged?
Henry Johnson
Did you just assume the gender of that insect? Just because it's pretty and might take a long time to make up its tiny mind?
Justin Evans
she's also a really humble/nice person irl
Elijah Ortiz
If you've read her longer stories you know she can do the work, so the flash shit isn't so annoying cause she clearly isn't a dumb college student who thinks she invented a new an exciting form of laziness.
Dylan Rodriguez
Trite
Brayden Rivera
Postmodernism was a mistake
Ayden Turner
This is good
Dylan Baker
That was Hemingway's only story of such short length and was, iirc, written on a bet
Jonathan Collins
Incorrect, ladybugs don't think in language.
I can't stand it when humanities majors try to pretend that nature is profound.
Ayden Perez
epic.............
Justin Perry
>what is personification
Easton Fisher
Shit. Personification is shit.
Tyler Davis
>It's just a joke >It's o-ok if it's just a joke
If it's so easy to do this, why can't you?
Nicholas Young
oh thanks professor
Jeremiah Russell
>one sentence that's better than everything everyone on Veeky Forums ever wrote Pretty based.
Thomas King
I didn't say it was easy FOR ME, I said it was easy for Hemingway, whose specialty par excellence was minimalism. My point was that he only had to do it once to get the point across.
Also, it now occurs to me that that passage about a ladybug isn't even a short story. It has no narrative. It's some kind of anemic philosophical dissertation, at best.
Tyler Harris
The story isn't from Hemingway though.
Asher Hill
false, she separates the subject from the verb so she is super plebs
the CORRECT way is it must fit inside the brain of a ladybug as she makes, before my eyes, a decision.
Brayden Richardson
I was about to disagree with you, granting her the artistic license to make that grammatical error, but I actually prefer your sentence.
Charles Morales
You're welcome.
Camden Johnson
i dont get it
what does this mean?
James Barnes
It means you need to go back to school
Cameron Scott
why?
Gavin Reyes
It called a "joke". I can see how you miss the point of the example story with such a dim bulb going in your skull.
Asher Foster
>It called a "joke". I can see how you miss the point of the example story with such a dim bulb going in your skull.
For all us dim bulbs. What does it mean?
Gavin Jenkins
What does what mean?
Joshua Bennett
>Into how small a space the word judgement can be compressed: it must fit inside the brain of a ladybug as she, before my eyes, makes a decision.
Owen Stewart
What about it are you having trouble with?
Ethan Bailey
it's about how the ladybug is judging her while she's judging the ladybug it's not terribly clever but still managed to confuse you I guess
Christian Long
The word "judgment" is not being compressed though. It's the idea of judgment which is a very different thing. She seems like a hack if she mixed this up. The word is not being compressed because the ladybug thinks not in English nor any other human language.
Leo Moore
>it's about how the ladybug is judging her while she's judging the ladybug
What, exactly, indicates that the ladybug is judging the narrator?
Ethan Perry
>as she, before my eyes, makes a decision
>decision >a conclusion or resolution reached after consideration.
Jackson Davis
That just indicates that the ladybug is making a judgement, not that the ladybug is judging the narrator?
It seems to indicate to me that the narrator is simply observing the ladybug make a judgement
Christopher Lopez
Yeah I'm with .
Oliver Brown
it is a pun, sort of
Juan Evans
What's the pun?
Tyler Reyes
Judgement as in making a decision and weighing a life.