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Sontag exudes intelligence in a non pedantic way. Instead of feeling turned away by unnecessary intellectual babble, I'm in awe of her intricate prose and try to be up to the task of understanding confusing statements. Statements confusing in both their grammatical construction and their deep historical or literary richness in terms of references.

First time reading beef between philosophers, its been exciting.

I'll always remember literally passing out from reading a certain page this morning.

At last, I leave the coasts of medieval europe and the christian focus. excited for Ockham and Descartes and all that follows.

While it's true that (after only reading the Mistborn trilogy) it's painfully clear that this was Sanderson's first published work, I overestimated this statement and I find myself enveloped by the world in Elantris and connected to its characters, something some veteran authors don't achieve.
Maybe I'm reading into it too much, but I can see traces of what he will do later with Mistborn laying here and there