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2022
One of the hardest things about life is that it’s just one big straight line: you might see your father, and you might see your thirty-year-old father, and you might see your father as a thirty-year-old.
But you can never see your thirty-year-old father as a thirty-year-old.
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2025
At what point does form override plot function? When does the weight of style break the back of substance and narrative?
Back in the 70s, the Times Literary Supplement ran a contest to see who could write the best parody of a Graham Greene sentence. (This was when the TLS boasted such huge talents as Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens on staff.) Graham Greene entered the contest as a joke. He came in third.
I thought of that today while…
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2022
One of the hardest things about life is that it’s just one big straight line: you might see your father, and you might see your thirty-year-old father, and you might see your father as a thirty-year-old.
But you can never see your thirty-year-old father as a thirty-year-old.
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2025
At what point does form override plot function? When does the weight of style break the back of substance and narrative?
Back in the 70s, the Times Literary Supplement ran a contest to see who could write the best parody of a Graham Greene sentence. (This was when the TLS boasted such huge talents as Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens on staff.) Graham Greene entered the contest as a joke. He came in third.
I thought of that today while…
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