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I took the book home, and was reeled in and placed in the keep-net by the spare elegant prose and a story at once universal and local: about Billy Casper and his bird of prey, and his cruel brother, his helpful teacher, and the crushing inevitability of a life down the pit.
His people become so real to us, their problems so palpably netted in the author's buoyant, expressionistic prose, that the novel gradually becomes a genuinely immersive experience — something increasingly rare in our ADD age.
Verse alternates with prose, and, occasionally, the poem becomes a textual net, with fragments of phrases spaced over the page in the manner of Mallarmé (one of Adonis's chief influences).
Character and story development require space, but on the net, you don't have that luxury, since netizens are accustomed to shorter bursts of prose.
Are we to assume that 'commonplace expressions' such as 'pull', by their presumed preappearance in the 'vast body' of James's prose, had acquired a 'magic' which their 'unadorned' use would allow to 'slip through the net'?
She wrote 26 novels, in shimmering prose full of mystical allusions, mostly about upper-middle-class intellectuals like herself caught in a net of romantic affairs, and five books on philosophy.
Francine Prose.
Documentary prose?
Prose endures.
Combat-boot prose, footcloth prose.
The prose is disappointing.
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