8FOLD/ACRA: Journey Into... # 12: The Orphans of Mars!

[Andrew Perron]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 20:11:42 +0000 (UTC), Tom Russell wrote:

> On Jun 2, 3:50 pm, Andrew Perron <pwer... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Okay, asking around, it seems that the fact I haven't really read much
>> Hemingway is misleading me.  I'm thinking more of short, choppy, emotive
>> sentences - not purple at all, really, or if so in a  completely opposite
>> way.
> 
> No, see, what I'm saying is, I've always thought that my writing, and
> JOLT CITY in particular, is purple-y, and thus the opposite of
> Hemingway-esque-- and so I was surprised to get the comparision.  But,
> you're right-- JOLT CITY does have its share of short-and-choppy
> admist all the explosion-as-orgasm metaphors and showy verbal-jumping-
> jacks.

Ahhhhhh.  So I was right the first time!  And yeah; the edited versions
really increase in this sort of phrasing.

>> Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, I think.
> 
> Therefore, you am.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, the Cartesian sketch, ladies and
gentlemen!