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Why do authors feel the need to be overly descriptive? I don’t know 10 sentences worth of what can be bought at a market.

“Oh - did you forget the women were there too, at this learned assemblage? So too will the poets, when this song is sung.”

“One day, shortly after his fifteenth birthday, Dares turned to his mother and mused: ‘It’s a good thing for you I let you hang around,’ and in that moment her hope died, though he was a monster of her own making.”