12-10-2017, 12:39 AM
(12-10-2017, 12:17 AM)CRNDLSM Wrote: About the whale classification, I think that was a trend for novelists to fill space, like in highschool we had to write a bunch of different kinds of essays, so why not continue showing off your writing capabilities. Oscar Wilde would spend paragraphs positioning furniture on a room. Notre Dame has a chapter on historical architecture, my favorite example is from 'house of leaves' by Mark danielewski, where an entire chapter about the science behind an echo gave me a chill at the end when the character heard an echo.true story.