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Hi, You're just not accustomed to reading books in this vein. This is not a 100% earnest novel. It contains lots of arch, wry, and ironically-driven narrative, like a subtext or energy behind the writing that halfway spoofs and pokes fun at language and novels themselves; that goes for the dialogue, too. Did you ever try to write down or record exactly what ppl say in conversation? I mean verbatim. I've done this in classes. So books that purport to be "realistic" are certainly not that. They're going by conventions, which are artificial. Some writers are interested in those conventions themselves and exaggerating them or what would it look like to break them? I hope this lends some insight.
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Aug 18, 2025 11:33AM
Hi, You're just not accustomed to reading books in this vein. This is not a 100% earnest novel. It contains lots of arch, wry, and ironically-driven narrative, like a subtext or energy behind the writing that halfway spoofs and pokes fun at language and novels themselves; that goes for the dialogue, too. Did you ever try to write down or record exactly what ppl say in conversation? I mean verbatim. I've done this in classes. So books that purport to be "realistic" are certainly not that. They're going by conventions, which are artificial. Some writers are interested in those conventions themselves and exaggerating them or what would it look like to break them? I hope this lends some insight.
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