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Word: outblown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readers of the avant-garde Evergreen Review in on how he does it. His methods for "spontaneous prose": "No periods separating sentence structures already arbitrarily riddled by false colons and timid usually needless commas-but the vigorous space dash separating rhetorical breathing (as jazz musicians drawing breath between outblown phrases). No pause to think of proper word but the infantile pileup of scatological buildup words till satisfaction is gained. If possible write 'without consciousness' in semi-trance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 18, 1958 | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

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