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Iva Spinoza's avatar

Reading this was like taking a breath after being under water for too long! One of my favourite readings in substack so far.

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Ren Miller's avatar

This is a phenomenal post. I admire how deeply you think on literature. As I was reading, I kept thinking: "What makes up a person?" What we consume and our experiences are a large part of it, and from that soil, we form ourselves into something new. I love how you demonstrated that the Greats were vast consumers of very rich material and that produced very different but both extremely worthy results.

That's what we should be aspiring to. As you say, not imitation of the words or style, but imitation of how to live a life of meaning where suddenly, the words bubble out of you despite yourself.

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