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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.
** 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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* William Carlos Williams.
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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]].
* ''[[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|
''Sucy grinned at me.''
''I'd seen the eyedropper she was holding.''
''Oh, wow. That was a close one. She'd almost gotten me again.''}}
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