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I'm unfamiliar with Blake Smith's work, or with the usual tenor of literary criticism in general. By about the third paragraph I wondered if this was what the
by thyrsus 3y ago
I'm unfamiliar with Blake Smith's work, or with the usual tenor of literary criticism in general. By about the third paragraph I wondered if this was what the word "snark" was invented for, or the phrase "backhanded compliment", and, now, why do I want to emulate it? Just how different from a large language model am I?
- rokkitmensch 3y agoI'd characterize it as sending up the genre of criticism as performed by fresh college grads. The piece meanders in and out of the regime, but I found it funny largely because I had to read a lot of the form he's taking the piss of here in college, and have even written some of my own under duress!