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eta: and i get the notion of borrowing from previous texts (poe, homer) instead of just describing something yourself. i guess poe and homer were so alive to him that he didn’t feel the need to go into details, but to me great writing fucks you up instead of telling you how fucked up the narrator feels. yeah. some anxiety of influence would have helped him here i guess. go beyond poe, kill or erase or split from poe, or at least die trying. but anyway yes— a good idea. i agree with that when i see past my aesthetic prejudices.