There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.
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I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000 walking around smiling, trying to earn enough to eat, while neurotically doing these little self-proofs in our head about how much better we are than these other slobs, while simultaneously, in another part of our brain, secretly feeling woefully inadequate to these smarter, more beautiful people.George Saunders
Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
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Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
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