throneofmemes@alien.topBtoBooks•What prose is so utterly beautiful that you had to stop, put the book down, and breathe?English
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10 months agoYes, it has that biblical grandness to it.
Yes, it has that biblical grandness to it.
Cormac McCarthy. His writing is so utterly gorgeous and devastating to me. I could be reading about him describing a disgusting corpse and I’d be like wow that’s beautiful.
I had to keep putting down Wuthering Heights because I found the characters unbearable, does that count?
I’ve always thought of prose more as a way to differentiate writing from poetry.