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Ryan Berger
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(page 15 of 285)
"Hm. How to phrase without sounding like a backhanded compliment or a serious indictment of his writing? Kraus has some very legitimate literary chops and writes seriously fun sentences but there is a weird tendency to gild the lily on literally everything that, to my ear, is what I hear in prose written by AI.
Obviously, I don't think Kraus used AI. But this reads like AI teach tape hashtag TO ME" — Oct 22, 2026 05:54PM
"Hm. How to phrase without sounding like a backhanded compliment or a serious indictment of his writing? Kraus has some very legitimate literary chops and writes seriously fun sentences but there is a weird tendency to gild the lily on literally everything that, to my ear, is what I hear in prose written by AI.
Obviously, I don't think Kraus used AI. But this reads like AI teach tape hashtag TO ME" — Oct 22, 2026 05:54PM
Ryan Berger
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(page 32 of 799)
"I am determined to get this but I am realizing that this is the kind of book that requires 50 minutes of solid, complete concentration to go ten pages. Hoo boy." — Aug 28, 2026 05:00PM
"I am determined to get this but I am realizing that this is the kind of book that requires 50 minutes of solid, complete concentration to go ten pages. Hoo boy." — Aug 28, 2026 05:00PM
“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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