Writer typing?

May 08, 2007 22:46

A Noob from the EI made the following typings...I feel like tearing him to pieces but that's probably a bit too mean. Now for those who read any of these writers, they're up for grabs ( Read more... )

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jplate May 9 2007, 03:23:11 UTC
Ooh, you were too quick.

I blush to admit, I haven't read most of them. Of many, I haven't even heard (to my credit, I've mostly been reading Ovid lately).

Off the top of my hat, I'd say Tolstoy is no 3, Austen a 1 (as you suggested yourself), Rushdie could well be a 7 (from what little I've read), but just as well a 4w3, Milton is no 3 either, Nabokov not a soc-first, Byron rather a 4.

Sorry, that's it.

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bohemianbanshee May 9 2007, 04:08:33 UTC
Byron may actually be a 4, as people usually assume, but from reading biographies on him, he also showed strong tendencies towards sx 7. Hompo and I discussed that on the EIDB years ago...

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jplate May 9 2007, 03:17:05 UTC
Way too many 3w4s! :o)

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akuyura May 9 2007, 03:20:19 UTC
Have you read any of them? Wanna shoot the barrels? The evidently outlandish? ;-)

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jplate May 9 2007, 03:25:07 UTC
See above. :)

Need to go, battery drained...

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akuyura May 9 2007, 03:27:27 UTC
Okay...thanks. I will comment later.

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bohemianbanshee May 9 2007, 04:03:36 UTC
WTH? Some of those are just nuts. Why so many 3w4's? TOLSTOY? Byron? Also disagree with Austen, Milton, Faulkner, Miller, Frost...

Some that I've read, like Wharton, Chaucer, and O'Connor, I really don't have a firm idea of type-wise.

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bohemianbanshee May 9 2007, 04:10:40 UTC
Oh, and Kerouac a 9? Six!

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akuyura May 10 2007, 02:57:09 UTC
lol, misterbewilder now tries to type Kerouac as a sx/soc 4w5. Now this is about as bad...

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bohemianbanshee May 10 2007, 23:42:25 UTC
Ugh, I know. Geez.

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fourish May 9 2007, 05:32:05 UTC
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Thanks, I needed a good laugh...

Anyway, why is it no one can correctly type sevens? Ken Kesey and Allen Ginsberg are definitely both sevens. Byron was an 8w7, I don't care what anybody says about it. Jane Austen was probably like a sp 6w5....ridiculous. As if there's that many 3w4s in literature...it's not exactly an art form that appeals to them above all others.

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akuyura May 10 2007, 02:43:32 UTC
What about all the sx 5w4 typings! ee cummings a sx 5w4? Flannery O'Connor a sx 5w4? Joseph Conrad a sx 5w4?

I found him to type a number of sevens as fives. Conrad, for instance, is another Seven.

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desormais July 3 2007, 16:44:00 UTC
Burgess could be added to that list, I thought he might also be sp/sx ?

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akuyura July 3 2007, 19:59:57 UTC
I am going to add you.

I have not read any Burgess, unfortunately. I have an inkling that intellectual seven writers are often mistyped though (many Sevens are imo very idea-centered/experimental when they wrote)

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parvenue May 9 2007, 12:53:47 UTC
ahaha 3w4s yah lol. i was thinking the other day id maybe rather a new type but things have turned illustrious again. havent read many anyway, of those i have i would guess tolstoy as like a 9/1 ? austen a 1 agreed, and wharton also struck me as a 1.

sylvia plath is what 4/5 sp/sx as she is typed, at lest 4w5. i read a little chaucer, thinking maybe 7-6 range or 9 but nao sei. milton i think i had to read for criping hs history but really not much clue there - most of that stuff sounds 1ish to me when its academic or philosophy for school im not gonna lie.

robert frost ive only read a few poems but i would guess the 1-9 line too lol. dieu, quem sabe im no better than thiz guy here.

i actually think one could imagine that even moreso perhaps for the older authors, pre modern media or before so wild, that literature and getting published would be v hot, as a prospect for an avg 3w4 but anyway its a null point and dont change that many of those 3/4s as called are likely very wrong.

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