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To: stan_sipple
Okay, but 50 or 60 years ago, this would have been "Write Like William Faulkner."

I can't say if Toni's a good writer or not. I can't even figure out what she's saying much of the time, and when I can it doesn't seem that compelling.

But the only reason I can read books by Faulkner is because generations of critics have done all the hard work for me, so I know what's the book's about before I pick it up.

Will Morrison be ranked anything like so highly? Or does it even matter, because that sort of thing belongs to the past?

7 posted on 11/25/2008 2:53:41 PM PST by x
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To: x
Okay, but 50 or 60 years ago, this would have been "Write Like William Faulkner."

Except that the "Write like Toni Morrison" from the above blog is obviously satirical. There seems to be agreement that Toni Morrison is an incompetent writer.

Now that can't be said of William Faulkner. To me at least, he often employed a syntax that rewarded the reader at the end of the sentence, yet it was still decidedly lucid.

I've not read any Toni Morrison. But if this satirical blog is any indication, she appears to have no command over basic syntax.

10 posted on 11/25/2008 3:05:04 PM PST by Flycatcher (Strong copy for a strong America)
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