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The staff at our local independent bookshop make a display with tiny hand-crafted editions of each book that has been included in their monthly Bookpack subscription. -
The staff at our local independent bookshop make a display with tiny hand-crafted editions of each book that has been included in their monthly Bookpack subscription.@tompearce49 @CiaraNi @Michigander Hmm yes you may be right, in that way, the Rembrandt is closer to a haiku than to a short story. But on a slightly different axis to the one about artistic skill required. I was conflating the two in my original post, I think.
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The staff at our local independent bookshop make a display with tiny hand-crafted editions of each book that has been included in their monthly Bookpack subscription.@wavesculptor @CiaraNi @Michigander Yes, that is a good visual equivalent of leaving out parts of a story that the reader will assemble in their head.
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The staff at our local independent bookshop make a display with tiny hand-crafted editions of each book that has been included in their monthly Bookpack subscription.@CiaraNi @Michigander Ooh. I want to draw a connection between short stories and a kind of visual art that is so spare and economical that it requires a very high level of skill.
Like the attached famous Rembrandt sketch, which is evocative and completely brings the woman to life with an astonishingly small number of brushstrokes. And none that are not absolutely necessary.
Novels, in painting terms, are made up of so many brushstrokes, none of them matters as much.