it's not so much a should, it's more of a style. what you're thinking of there is nothing wrong with it, but it didn't become popular until hemingway and mccarthy popularised lean writing. they were right to do it because the use of commas had gotten ridiculously excessive. writing using commas is much harder to make it work, and in the 19th century, people overdid it as a flex. the way to think of it is guitar soloists, a solo works well, but then people keep pushing the envelope and overdoing it. some guitarists focused too much on it, and it became more a case of they're being trick guitarists instead of good musicians. it's similar in that it's supposed to give your writing flair and sparkle when you pull it off, but when you fumble it, then it gets very clunky and laborious. even lean sentences like mccarthy's style take skill, if you're not practiced in it, your sentences can read like a child or dull and tone-deaf, like robotic outputs. i often use this place as a place for experimenting with ways to communicate consciousness, and obviously when you're practicing and experimenting, you fuck things up a lot, and then you have these insufferable burgers fucking jumping on you for daring to practice and fail. anyway, like i give a fuck because i dropped out of school at fourteen and still smoke most burgers here, especially many with university education that reckon themselves oh so clever.
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