A naive response is "have you read all the books in the library yet?" or "have you taught yourself advanced quantum mechanics yet?" Former is plain silly. It becomes obvious fairly quickly in a reading life that humans have written 100x more books than they have things to say
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Addendum: there is a big element of surrender in accessing surprisal latent in the universe, and it becomes harder to surrender with age because we become addicted to agency. Even when risks are low, we resist. Kids surprise more easily because they surrender more easily.
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Not sure how this fits, but writing poetry has become sort of a surprise-generating enterprise for me. I’ve taught myself to start with a minimal seed and write intuitively from that. The result: if I read something I wrote 4-6 weeks ago, I often find it surreally unfamiliar
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Poetry is like coding in assembly. Forces you to work with an instruction set right next to the hardware of life.
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You gave us Premium Mediocre and taught me what Straussian means so all’s well in my book.
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Former was more than a year ago
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Oh ffs stop apologizing. Ur not an evident narcissist and I’m not keen to start thinking of you as one.
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