Muscular Prose

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I don't think I like it.

Give me some examples so I know what to avoid, or alternatively, know where to broaden my horizons.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

lucky gym

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Fighting Pokémon!!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

ask the question again, but so i can understand it.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Is this like Muscular Gothic Architecture? Cause I like that...

Muscular prose, I don't think I like. It reeks too much of Hemmingway. (i.e. fish and sweat and scotch)

― kate, Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Wot is wrong with fish and sweat and scotch, that is how I like all my women to smell (er...).

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I was thinking of Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy and guess who comes up when you put "muscular prose" into Kartoo? Hmm..

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i got a pretentious-looking and unintelligble globe full of unreadable links.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 5 November 2002 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, I'm with Kate - I thought immediately of Hemingway. Spurn this macho idiot and immerse yourself in Faulkner, Fitzgerald and, of course, Dos Passos.

― Tim Bateman, Tuesday, 5 November 2002 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

So they are muscular but not macho, yes?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

He probably was a macho idiot but hemingway did write some good stuff. Personally my favorite is A Moveable Feast.

― g (graysonlane), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Ulysses muscualr prose?

― g (graysonlane), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Ulysses muscualr prose?

No.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

(Sorry about that last thing -- I was just showing somebody how ILx works.)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

― g (graysonlane), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I was just showing someone at work the mechanics of ILx posting and updating, using this thread as a random example.

Ulysses really doesn't have muscular prose, by the way.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 10 November 2002 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

I recently saw Fredric Jameson described this way!!

― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 April 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

I don't remember this thread.

But its title, and author, were promising.

― the prosefox, Monday, 12 April 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

It still could be. Mailer? Amis?

I'm doing my worst, here.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

So did they. Buggers.

― the bellefox, Monday, 12 April 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Ouch.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

But are we just projecting an idea of 'muscular' from an image of Mailer, boxing, or Mailer... typing... to the prose?

I guess that what N. was getting at was something in the prose itself.

It's tough, innit?

It's thorny, this. It's muscly.

Could one possibly demonstrate that many sentences in eg Sinclair's LIGHTS OUT were, in some sense, muscular?

Granted, muscular is a 'metaphor' - but to say that feels circular.

― the mailfox, Monday, 12 April 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't have a mailfox anymore.

― the pinefox, Monday, 12 April 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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