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Fantastic essay! “Only the foolishly brave and irredeemably desperate…..” I’m tempted to return to IJ and try to finish. I got maybe half way through years ago, after he killed himself, and the depth and velocity of his mind started to unnerve me. Maybe I can be more brave and more desperate

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Thanks for the tip. Btw, have you ever considered writing red a novel with a character doing a real-world business job and seeing through all the bs and at the same time having all these wild, distracting insights (riffs) on lit and life? I could see some of your recent posts as chapters in that novel. Just saying…

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