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I think that some authors would be delighted to know that essays do not have to be the limping 5 paragraphs of bad academic prose that you and your teachers suffered through in school.

The essay is an old and rich literary form. You can express lofty sentiment, profound insight, rousing calls to action (the manifesto is a sub-genre of essay); you can experiment with prose—make it florid and purple or terse and aggressive or wry or whimsical or any style you like. Essays can be beautiful literature and thrilling to read!

I just think that some authors might like to remember this, when they are inexplicably moved to write a poem, but that poem is just the most normal basic prose in the world, expressing a perfectly linear, sequential set of ideas, and then line breaks are shoved into the middle of sentences in an apologetic attempt to add impact or drama, and the whole result makes me bored and annoyed because,

Dear author,

Respected colleague,

I mean it with all goodwill when i tell you,

Linguistic contamination

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Brain is primordial sludge & you are drowning in it

U are a ghost and nothing is real

Mental equivalent of attempting to stream some high-res video game when all you have is dial-up

The thing you want to articulate is *right there* but you're just scrabbling at it like a cat continually failing to catch the bird on the other side of the window

[CN SERVER SPECIAL CONSULTATION MR]