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

Andrew Perron pwerdna at gmail.com
Wed Jun 2 12:50:19 PDT 2010


On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:59:16 +0000 (UTC), Tom Russell wrote:

> On Jun 1, 4:43 am, Andrew Perron <pwer... at gmail.com> wrote:

>>  the style you use is entirely different from Jolt City.
>> (Especially the pared-down, almost Hemingwayesque style of the edited
>> TPBs.)
> 
> Wait, what?  I often worry that JOLT CITY-- in all its forms,
> including the novel-- is a shade too purple-y.  But it's almost
> Hemingwayesque?
> 
> Not arguing, mind you-- just a little perplexed, as that comparison
> had not occurred to me before.

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.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, I think.


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