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> "the palm trees were throwing summer shade onto the concrete walkways – ‘Tailor Made Office Solutions’, it said on a nearby billboard – and people were drinki
by CookieMon 10y ago
> "the palm trees were throwing summer shade onto the concrete walkways – ‘Tailor Made Office Solutions’, it said on a nearby billboard – and people were drinking coffee in Deli 32 on the ground floor. Wright’s office on level five was painted red, and looked down on the Macquarie Park Cemetery, known as a place of calm for the living as much as the dead."
Ugh, it's like wading through a New Yorker article. Less paying by the word please.
- Falcon9 10y agoThere have been plenty of terse short form blog entries about the saga, if you don't like the style of this piece you're free to close it and walk away without shitting on it. I spent the afternoon reading this piece and thoroughly enjoyed the writing, including the flavor and detail you call out.
- stangeek 10y agoI enjoyed it a lot as well. This piece is a story about Wright, not cold, raw news about whethers he's Satoshi or not. Quite fitting, given that the Satoshi persona is fictive by construction...
- vithlani 10y agoThey do get paid by the word at the LRB, 30 pence/word. May they continue writing even longer such essays: reading one of these is enough to give you all the information on the issue.