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“Literature could turn you into an asshole; he’s learned that from teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the way you did characters, as instruments of your own intellectual pleasure, cadavers on which to practice your critical faculties.”
— Apr 13, 2025 08:22PM
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Bailey Sims
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“That was what made the story epic: the player, the hero, had to suffer mightily en route to his final triumph. Schwartz knew that people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense …The key was to choose the form of your suffering … A good coach made you suffer in a way that suited you. A bad coach made everyone suffer in the same way, and so was more like a torturer.” (149)
— Apr 08, 2025 05:40PM
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“No one would understand, not even Henry. Especially Henry. The myth that lay at the base of their friendship - the myth of his own infallibility - would be shattered”
— Apr 05, 2025 09:52AM
