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"the idea of a book being “fake” greatly misunderstands the vagaries of imaginative thought, whose tendency is to trawl the idiosyncratic detritus inherent to i
by creep 8y ago
"the idea of a book being “fake” greatly misunderstands the vagaries of imaginative thought, whose tendency is to trawl the idiosyncratic detritus inherent to its mimesis regardless of the spuriousness or relative candor of its constitutive parts. "
An interesting idea overall (the article) but I stopped reading there.
- monkpit 8y ago“Back away from the thesaurus!”
- apocalypstyx 8y agoStrike a blow for polysyllabic sesquipedalianism!
- retsibsi 8y agoI know HN dislikes lazy dismissals, but I think the downvotes here are a bit harsh. This is unreadably turgid prose, and quoting it here saved me from a frustrating experience.