Conversation

Penn doesn’t just swing and miss with his ambitious vocabulary; he swings and cracks a hole in reality as we know it, leaving us all unsure of the concept of a good sentence, how a novel should be structured and generally what makes sense any more.

“She sharted agave shimmering spirits and shifted shit-faced overboard.” It’s like beat poetry, just somehow worse.

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/29/sean-penn-debut-novel-bob-honey-just-do-stuff