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WilliWalli's avatar

Now that I've imagined you eating beans from a can while you sit on the steps of your Guanajuato trailer, I want to hear more. It could be a new literature category: Predictive Memoir

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dan tynan's avatar

I really like that idea. I may steal it.

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WilliWalli's avatar

Sure. Just don't forget me in your National Book Award acceptance speech.

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dan tynan's avatar

I will be sure to mention you in the acknowledgements.

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Kathleen Tynan McLaughlin's avatar

Curious: is your goal to get things off your chest? Are you looking for reactions? A dialogue? Are you out to educate the masses like me? All of the above?

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dan tynan's avatar

Yes.

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John Goddard's avatar

"One morning (and it will be soon), when everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of universal deafness and incomprehension will have arrived."

- Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)

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dan tynan's avatar

I think if Milan were alive today I think he'd say "one morning when everyone wakes up as an Instagram influencer, the age of universal botox and ozempic injections will have arrived."

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