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William Faulkner vs. Cormac McCarthy Prose Battle

Summary by neatorama.com
Cormac McCarthy is known for prose as terse as Coolidge and punctuation as minimal as a bikini. William Faulkner, on the other hand, took his time to express his thoughts with great verbosity. In this video, comedian Jerry Wayne Longmire plays both writers arguing about the proper density of language in narrative prose."The dictionary ought to charge you rent." I'm with McCarthy on this one.This video is one of Longmire's many parodies of Faulkn…
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neatorama.com broke the news in on Monday, January 5, 2026.
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