1. @jbthazard I actually think there’s a slew of writers—Joyce, Pinter, Beckett—that nobody reads because they enjoy or like them. The point of reading these people is more an intellectual status signalling game among high tier intellectuals and academics.
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6. It’s pretentious and phoney. I say that as a pretentious person. Poetry is ultimately king, because it conveys the truth with absolute concision and all novelists are degraded poets.
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