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When you’ve written enough and people quote enough random bits back at you that you barely recognize, frequently enough to form a stream, it’s a kind of body horror mirror. Like a Dorian Gray painting of yourself. The quoteback stream gestalt is basically your inner monster.
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While I have minor cringe responses to older writing, it doesn’t really bother me, and I don’t feel any need to delete or edit. But the quoteback stream… yeah. And the prob,em is worse if you’re primarily an essayist, since books control their own reaction exhaust better.
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If you don’t want this kind of body horror, try to do all your writing as big fat books released every few years.
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