I wonder how many people use the approach of saying stuff that they know will be misquoted in such a way that every smart person who sees the quote will check out the source material.https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1128315790661439488 …
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Replying to @danlistensto
In Persecution and the Art of Writing, Strauss literally says that's how they do it—that good writers secretly say something so obviously wrong that the smart audience they're writing for immediately rereads the entire text to tease out the esoteric meaning.
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Replying to @ByrneHobart @danlistensto
well it's nice to understand all of my popular tweets now
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