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

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81 points acabal | 2 comments | 22 Oct 24 03:20 UTC | HN request time: 1.154s | source
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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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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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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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1. dxdm ◴[22 Oct 24 11:57 UTC] No.41913383[source]▶
I'm not who you're replying to, but I agree with them. For my taste, it's a little too clever. It distracts from the subject of the text and instead draws attention to the form of the text itself and its author.

Worse than that, it's clunky-sounding and trips me up verbally.

That's subjective, of course, but I would have preferred if the author had left out this turn of phrase.

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2. stavros ◴[22 Oct 24 18:07 UTC] No.41916967[source]▶
I see what you mean (it doesn't quite work for me either), but it works for some people, so eh. I guess the sibling is right, it's subjective.