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Ilana Masad's avatar

There's a lot here I love for many reasons, and I must say that the conclusion is especially satisfying because, indeed, "we’re all doing everything all the time and the only thing that changes is what five or ten culture writers in New York choose to call the moment." MOOD.

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Charlotte Freeman's avatar

I love eavesdropping on you thinking Brandon ... the "character vapor" novels are not pour moi, but one small good thing about getting older is how little one cares. However, your parsing of such things is so smart, and gives me a frame to understand why that is not my thing, and why my thing is my thing, and as such, is deeply useful. Thanks.

I also love the idea of Ikea as a space of empty tableau, because my actual experience there is my dear late brother hissing "This probably works in *Sweden*, where people are *polite*" before insisting we leave.

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