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SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 months ago

"The Best Essay" by Paul Graham

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"The Best Essay" by Paul Graham

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SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 months ago

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In which a man disappearing up his own asshole somehow fails to be interesting.

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Uhhhh what now? How does writing an essay about how an essay should be an essay that is surprising, somehow fail to be utterly surprising or even all that interesting?

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