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I love books with overstyled glossy photos, gratuitous cleavage shots and chatty rambling prose.
Academics were put off by this autodidact from the murky demimonde, whose rambling prose was full of marginal jeremiads.
In long and sometimes rambling prose, the poet extols the virtues of fresh air, of good footwear, of naked sunbathing and even of facial hair.
It was a slim 95-page volume, with much of the type hand-set by Whitman himself, containing just 12 untitled poems and a long and rambling prose preface.
He has kept about two-thirds of the old selection, adding 50 or so poems and a small sheaf of the poet's rambling prose statements and reminiscences, some of which sound more like Ernie Kovacs or Lenny Bruce than the author of these insouciantly unserious poems (O'Hara loathed academic hauteur, though he needn't have sounded so oafish about it).
These features, together with William's frequent use of analogies, metaphors and examples drawn from everyday life, his long-winded, rambling prose and frequent digressions, his harsh assessments of opponents as imbeciles or morons, and his urging that proponents of dangerous doctrines be wiped out by fire and sword, make for an inimitable and immediately recognizable style.
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Balzac, though, wrote rambling torrents of prose, while Hemingway was, well, Hemingway, the man who, on the page, strived to leave things out.
Despite its rambling, overblown prose and its gaudy, pre-Raphaelite influenced illustrations, the Iraqi media have hailed it as an "innovation in the history of novels" and given it rave reviews.
I'm not sure whether Parks wants us to think this is just the overwrought, and perhaps comical, rambling of a madman -- or whether he wants us to take it as moving poetic prose.
This, added to the various crowd-sourced anecdotes that pepper the text and the gusto of the prose – centipedes, for example, are distinguished by their "extravagant legginess" – makes for irresistible dipping and rambling.
I will stop rambling.
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