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A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending

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48 points acabal | 6 comments | 22 Oct 24 03:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source | bottom
1. tptacek ◴[22 Oct 24 04:43 UTC] No.41911264[source]▶
"Keenly attuned to his guests’ networks and net worths" is a cute turn of phrase.

Watch out for this story, it'll suck you in.

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2. ballooney ◴[22 Oct 24 05:14 UTC] No.41911388[source]▶
Exactly the sort of darling that that my college tutor would have said needed to be killed. “Yes, I know you’re very proud of it…”
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3. ajdlinux ◴[22 Oct 24 06:01 UTC] No.41911589[source]▶
I have just lost an hour of my workday. A good longform profile of a single controversial character will do that to me.
4. stavros ◴[22 Oct 24 09:38 UTC] No.41912670[source]▶
Why would they say that it needs to be killed? To what end?
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5. pjc50 ◴[22 Oct 24 10:10 UTC] No.41912826{3}[source]▶
The phrase "kill your darlings" circulates in fiction writing schools. The reasoning is that a "darling" turn of phrase which the author really likes is likely something that they are irrationally obsessed over and that distorts the editing process around itself, to the detriment of overall quality.

Like a lot of writing advice this is really subjective.

6. ◴[22 Oct 24 11:28 UTC] No.41913232[source]▶