purple prose

whew!

ive learned about purple prose and it makes me sick. it made me realize how petty i was, am and has become. purple prose is used to describe passages, or sometimes entire literary works, written in prose so overly extravagant, ornate or flowery as to break the flow and draw attention to itself.. that is (what i think) i am doing.

i have also this feeling that many young bloggers (not writers) are unconsciously writing in purple prose because of a certain stage of concealment, exploration and self definition that goes with the idea of writing indirectly bordering to becoming ostentacious. i don't mean that it is that negative, maybe it is, i don't know for sure. It's just that there is a certain whip of pretense that goes with purple prose and that is what makes me sick.

anyway, this purple prose thingy was a thought, actually a speculation of what became a recent addiction. don't you feel the need to act profound, sound profound and write profound because in the life that we live there is such a thing as the "ungraspable" which makes you feel, sound and write in the ungraspable. all im saying is that it is not entirely the young bloggers, (okay) writers fault if she writes in such a way. i believe it's a stage. a stage of asking the essence of everything. i don't know but everyday i don't fail to think about how come we are alive, i am alive for that matter, breathing, loving, sexing whatever. i mean in the end we all die. do you get what i mean. people have tried to define life since time immemorial yet it remains unfathomable. hmmmmm. enough.

this is i think an exact example of a purple prose.