Status Updates From Trickster Makes This World:...

out of 12 chapters, he uses to directly broach summarizing what he's discussed in them in exactly... 3? of them.

unfortunately assumes/writes for a very specific kind of reader - biggest pet peeve in non-fic. in this case perhaps a university-educated 1990s American.

"but as we **all** know, Ginsburg not only retrieved Gide and Baudelaire from the library,"

I'm a young Canadian with no professional post-secondary education in literature and only a mild interest in poetry. I have no idea of who Ginsburg is actually.