In my first Creative Writing class in college my professor underlined the importance of being succinct: ‘Write a sentence, then cross out all the superfluous words.‘ His second rule was to evade writing about writing; he considered that a cop out. I might have already failed him on one account, but in Prehistoric Times, Eric Chevillard knowingly ignores both of these recommendations, assigning his narrator prose that is both dense and Dada-esque.
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