Talk:Second Child, Restless Child/@comment-43788761-20191007062845

help. i'm drowning. your prose is so-

i can't.

the poignancy, the quiet poetic dreamlike quality, the way each phrase and sentence and word builds upon the latter until you're swept up in a rhythmic ocean of linguistic harmony, and-

I've had to read this book, "Several Short Sentences About Writing". It was for an AP class I never took, but I still pick it up on occasion. Somehow you take in every pearl of wisdom that little book has to offer, and display them with such effortless skill that you appear as some sort of...

...I don't want to say "deer-headed writing god of some long-forgotten sect", but that's the vibe, you know?

Some people inspire me to write because I look at what they've done and realize that any primate with a keyboard can make a story. Then there are the people that inspire me because I pray that someday I can see even a glimmer, a mote of their light in my own tripe.

Deer-headed writing gods aren't primates, if that makes sense.

Thank you.

TL;DR: you're kind of the best author, after Douglas Adams, Tolkein, and that one guy who underlines typos in the library books I check out. Please never stop or I might wither.