I really miss that guy can't really put into words how much it meant to me back then that he thought I legitimately had talent as both a writer and an editor last thing he said to me before I left SIU to go to this shithole was "I think you can go as far as you want with this"https://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1314442375247343616 …
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like people had said that shit to me before I guess, but I hadn't really heard it for a while after I'd been in the military a few years and I mean even if anyone did, the fuck did any of THEM know, not like THEY'D ever published a book so it was a lot
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Remember the story of all the cadets in Edgar Allan Poe's class at West Point crowdfunding the publication of his first book of poetry once he stopped going to class and intentionally got himself court-martialed
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Of course, while he was in the Army much of the poetry Poe wrote was lines of off-color doggerel mocking the banality of Army life and poking fun at the foibles of various unpopular officers Presumably many of his colleagues were expecting more of the same
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