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There__ a big default notion that __pare,_ or __recise_ prose is somehow better. I keep insisting to them that while such prose is completely legitimate, it__ in no way intrinsically more accurate, more relevant, or better than lush prose. That adjective __recise,_ for example, needs unpicking. If a __inimalist_ writer describes a table, and a metaphor-ridden adjective-heavy weird fictioneer describes a table, they are very different, but the former is in absolutely no way closer to the material reality than the latter. Both of them are radically different from that reality. They__e just words. A table is a big wooden thing with my tea on it.
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There__ a big default notion that __pare,_ or __recise_ prose is somehow better. I keep insisting to them that while such prose is completely legitimate, it__ in no way intrinsically more accurate, more relevant, or better than lush prose. That adjective __recise,_ for example, needs unpicking. If a __inimalist_ writer describes a table, and a metaphor-ridden adjective-heavy weird fictioneer describes a table, they are very different, but the former is in absolutely no way closer to the material reality than the latter. Both of them are radically different from that reality. They__e just words. A table is a big wooden thing with my tea on it.

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