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This is great if you read it in a Fox Mulder voice.

The book's first line really sets up a perfect opening shot for a TV version.

There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful article.

Ghostface Killah is yet to sue Action Bronson.

'I hope you die. I hope we both die' fits pretty well with Moby Dick too

The story goes that Hunter S Thompson typed out the Great Gatsby to get the flow of the writing. Quite a different approach to his infamous daily routine.

What is a good starting point for reading Baldwin?

Brilliant story. This reminds me so much of David Foster Wallace's 'Little Expressionless Animals,' I wonder if DFW was aware of the broadcast and took it as inspiration

Sorry To Bother You from 2018 has a particular scene that runs counter to this idea. Very funny too

Really interesting. The whole article feels like an argument against his point; pointing out the varied meanings, implications and stigmas of 'mere' or 'able' just reminds me how great that ambiguity is for literature.

The line from Yeats' 'Second Coming' works with both meanings, mere meaning pure anarchy reflecting the nightmarish time and being a great oxymoron, and mere meaning small, less noticeable anarchy fitting the subtle terror of 'the falcon cannot hear the falconer.' Even without that as an initial intention, it shows how language and great writing both evolve together over time.

Bill Bryson on Stonehenge:

"Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that...and then we can party!'"

(Yes, I only know that quote from Civ 6)