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* Ronald Syme wrote ''The Roman Revolution'' like this: a book on the Republic's fall and the Empire's rise.<ref>Roman, not [[Star Wars|another]]</ref> Syme was writing like Tacitus. |
* Ronald Syme wrote ''The Roman Revolution'' like this: a book on the Republic's fall and the Empire's rise.<ref>Roman, not [[Star Wars|another]]</ref> Syme was writing like Tacitus. |
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** In the words of my Roman History Professor: "Syme wrote in an abrupt, punchy style, writing sentences without verbs, or nouns, or sometimes even words." |
** In the words of my Roman History Professor: "Syme wrote in an abrupt, punchy style, writing sentences without verbs, or nouns, or sometimes even words." |
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* [[Haiku]], the poetic form, is essentially this. |
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* William Carlos Williams. |
* William Carlos Williams. |
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|''Grapefruit'', 1964 }} |
|''Grapefruit'', 1964 }} |
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* Epigrams, the Greek ones however could be a lot longer and almost indistinguishable from elegies. Modern ones are only a couple of lines long. The most famous one was written by a Roman named [[Catullus]]. |
* Epigrams, the Greek ones however could be a lot longer and almost indistinguishable from elegies. Modern ones are only a couple of lines long. The most famous one was written by a Roman named [[Catullus]]. |
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* ''[[Little Witch Academia: The Nonsensical Witch and the Country of the Fairies]]'' contains some basic, straight to the point descriptions even for a light novel. {{quote| |
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''Sucy grinned at me.'' |
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''I'd seen the eyedropper she was holding.'' |
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''Oh, wow. That was a close one. She'd almost gotten me again.''}} |
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== [[Live-Action TV]] == |
== [[Live-Action TV]] == |