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Old 6th February 2009, 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Uemarasan View Post
This is a criticism that I see cropping up time and again, and I will always disagree with it.

I don't see how reusing phrases is a bad thing since she's placed them in a different context thus changing their meaning.

Throughout all these years, it's not that Ayu is running out of ideas to write about. It's that Ayu is revisiting ideas, exploring them again, and either saying something new about them or re-emphasizing them, reinforcing her beliefs, or reconfiguring them. There is such nuance in her writing, such small but vital changes, that it's easy to see it as mere recycling.
The meaning of many of the phrases seems pretty much the same to me. If she is going to state the same things repeatedly, I just wish that she would at least come up with a new way of getting the point across, that's all.
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