Baconsommh

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[–] Baconsommh@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This could almost be a description of a very great number of Harry Potter fan fics.

[–] Baconsommh@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

“Blasphemous geometries” ahoy !

[–] Baconsommh@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

His prose tends to be a shade too pompous for my taste.

One of the more annoying tics of 18th-century prose is the habit of referring to people as “the [adjective] So-and-So”, instead of referring simply to “So-and-So”.

[–] Baconsommh@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

So many of these !

Non-Euclidian geometries

Blasphemous

Cyclopean

[–] Baconsommh@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Snape’s hair is usually described as “greasy”, “like curtains”.

And there is Draco Malfoy’s “pale, pointed face”.

And Hermione’s “bushy brown hair”.

And Dumbledore’s “half-moon spectacles”.

[–] Baconsommh@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

That might work in a period novel, perhaps; in one set in the 1890s perhaps.

[–] Baconsommh@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

J K Rowling is very fond of “zoom” and variants, in the Harry Potter books. And there is a lot of “beaming” and “roaring” as well.