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Aug 15, 2023Liked by Fernando Sdrigotti

I love the idea of some fool's last words being a stupid comment about Love Island. To be honest, anyone commenting o Love Island deserves no more than those being their last words anyway. I often think the RIPs are mostly about boasting that you were into the celebrity's music or whatever, to show off how cool you are. I've said it before, but I couldn't care less when someone I never knew dies. You might say they won't make any more music but that's usually a good thing. Better to check out while the going's good.

I got a friend who's like Death himself. Everyone he knows dies. Anyone hangs out with him a while, dies soon after. I'm the only one to survive. Immune. I'm fuckin invincible anyway. Funnily, everyone who spent time with me went mad. Between the two of us, we have a long list of victims. Mad and dead. Like a pair of terrible angels.

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Your friend is good material for a story!

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Yeah, it's true. Might have to tap that.

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your example of the Argentine writer, actually says something else - that the writer was what Musil described as higher ignorance. Perhaps intelligent and with expertise in their field but incredibly stupid elsewhere. A writer who can produce sentences who is stupid about the pandemic, race, sex and gender.

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