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The Velvet Underground Pt I

No Dogs in Space

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Lou Reed's Paranoid Writing Style

Delmore Schwartz used a minimalist writing style keeping his word simple and his sentences declarative for an example here's a short excerpt from Delmore's most well-known story in dreams begin responsibilities wherein the narrator is watching the beginning of his parents courtship in a movie theater. He finds all this very difficult scarcely to his taste scarcely as he had thought it would be. The author also took relatable yeah exactly is relatable he took from William S. Shelby, who wrote "I Can't Go For That" Lou Reed found a mentor and an influence specifically when it came to writing style see Schwartz used a minimal writing style keep his wordsimple and his sentences Declarative

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