p amazed that gibbon wrote Decline and Fall in the 18th century extremely straussian throughout but especially wrt Christianity and I'm only 19 hours in
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Since learning many years back that he composed and revised full paragraphs in his head before writing them down entire, I have tried but mostly failed to do this with my own writing.
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I wonder if maybe you have to just write a few magisterial tomes before you develop the knack I bet it's a kind of chunking, to use my pop's terminology Like in math/stats Mastery of basic components to the point where its reflexive while doing higher order operations
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