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Only reason I write things that sometimes agglomerate into book-like objects is that I lack the skill to make more complex objects.
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I’m not actually much of a reader. If you exclude easy-reading genre fiction, which is probably 90% of my book count (and for which I usually prefer movie/TV versions where available), I’m not actually much of a reader.
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There’s 2 kinds of genuine book people: shredders and worshippers. Shredders actually read lots of tough books, remember what they say, and rip out lots of great quotes and passages (hence shredders) for use in the meme layer of media. Yay shredders! 🙌
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Worshippers kinda suck. They mostly read without digesting or shredding anything. They just turn into vague Straussian worshippers of statue-heads or something. Instead of inserting context appropriate quotes into the Discourse, they share photos of bookshelves 🤬
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Yeah me too. I’ve been through occasional brief phases of crushing on words and phrases, and coming up with the occasional fun coinage, but I’m not really a lover of language per se, or a craftsman with a strong ear for it. More word-shopper than word-smith. Means, not ends.
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Kinda sick of words, myself .
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I’ve been privately thinking for the last couple of years that I’m sort of aspirationally post-verbal. Only use words where more direct mechanisms don’t exist. Which unfortunately is “most of the time” for me.
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When I first read Harry Potter I was underwhelmed by them as books. It’s only when they were turned into movies that I realized they were awesome movie raw material. A good book is an industrial intermediate material these days.
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