Literary Devices and Innovations
Ellroy has developed a number of literary innovations in his work and these have found their fullest expression in this trilogy.
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“We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent was a youthful effervescence which we have now lost.”
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“So that with much ado I was corrupted, and made to learn the dirty devices of this world.
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“By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.”
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