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What's left of a story after you strip out the pretense of literature.
means The soft, mashed-up fleshy part of something (fruit, wood, paper stock) — or, by extension, the cheap, sensational fiction once printed on the rough paper made from it.
from From Latin 'pulpa,' meaning flesh or animal/plant pulp — the soft fleshy stuff of a body or fruit. The literary sense arrives sideways: in the early 20th century, cheap fiction magazines were printed on rough, low-grade 'pulp' paper (made from mashed wood pulp) to keep costs down, as opposed to the glossy 'slick' magazines on better stock. Readers and critics started calling the stories themselves 'pulp' — and the slangy, down-market sense stuck long after the paper did.
- paper hierarchy
- pulp mags were literally the cheapest grade of paper
- orange juice
- pulp is just fruit cell walls that survived the juicer
- tarantino title
- Pulp Fiction named itself after that disposable paperback era
- wood to paper
- a single tree can become roughly 8000 sheets of paper