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True words are not beautiful.
Beautiful words are not true.
- Lao-tzu

"Note to self: John is not a journalist. Also not a non-fiction writer. He is, however, a writer of journalistic-ish texts that are not necessarily fiction. Got it."

Most frustrating book I've read in my life and I've read Stranger in a Strange Land

I have not wanted to throw a book at a wall this hard in years. Fingal's fact checking is so condescending, smug, and "um, actually," treating the facts of a teenager's death as completely irrelevant trifles. He has such a fundamental misunderstanding of creative nonfiction and talks down to the genre repeatedly. I am going to have to spend hours cooling down from this, fuck you professor for this assigning this

I’m one chapter in and my blood pressure is through the roof (complimentary). 🫠