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@philiptraylen
most recent essay oldoldoldoldnew.substack.com/p/american-lit…
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    @philiptraylen
    Jul 20
    I have two books out since now, on Amazon, $15 paperback [1] Under Her Adidases and Other Poems [“this is the strongest modern work I’ve seen”, anon] [2] Snag [“the most important book published in English since 2022,” anon] please repost, buy, review, attack! loveya
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    Kant is the only thinker who was, in a meaningful sense, "ahead of his time." He genuinely has no idea what he's talking about. [which is what "dare to know" means]
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    The reason the Critique of Pure Reason is better than whatever NY autofiction novel is not that the Critique of Pure Reason is not a work of autofiction, but that it is THE ONLY POSSIBLE work of autofiction, and since it ALREADY EXISTS, and is more "confessional" than the entire
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    of course it’s cheap, this death-thinking, which actually isn’t mine, which actually is just the disguised promise of unmineness — how is that different, and, “according to me, better,” than the body of a woman? What an idea, evidently “self-defensive,” and so on. Dear God I’m
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    Dark academia? Dark aca-mean-to-me-for-no-reason, more like
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