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Also is there a general audience nonfiction example of beginning with a narrative bibliography? Not an introduction or lit survey. Straight-up, “here’s how I got to my starting point”? Nonfiction conventions could use some shaking up
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It would be a sobering critique of a lot of writing about post-post-mo to structure a book that was 95% definitions at the front, and then just 5% of dense exposition at the end. Like the Heart Sutra written in Tolkien High Elvish or something. Math proofs are like this.
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