honestly my favourite thing about my writing style being kinda oldfashioned is when it combines with very contemporary phrasings or tropes

there’s something charming about dropping a line of dialogue like “Perfectly normal, non-traumatized thing to say” in the midst of some faux‐Edwardian pre‐modernist prose

i was explaining that my writing style is heavily influenced by the Edwardian period because that was the latest stuff one could find on Project Gutenberg when i was in high school, and bea was like “you couldn’t have just pirated something newer??” lol

there is postwar literature in the English language which i feel has value, but it’s all genre fiction and i think the value is largely something other than its mastery of the literary art

i should qualify that i am talking about fiction here; the critical theorists have made several notable literary contributions to English nonfiction in the past decades ;P

i also think Twilight was a notable contribution to the English canon but that is neither here nor there