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Jessica's avatar

Oh no, never read the introduction! They're always so bad, you are not a baby bird you don't need pre-digestion

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Lancelot Schaubert's avatar

Or perhaps even to simply keep a record of what you did with a small, measurable set of copies that you don't have to store in a warehouse or (God forbid) a Brooklyn apartment forever.

After all, there's a very well-known twentieth century author who finished his career writing four plays and died before he wrote more. Of all the things most people read by him, they don't read the plays because they almost never know they exist. Even supposed scholars specializing in the man or familiar with his work. And we barely preserved those, but they're some of the best things he wrote.

Why not also at the start of a career?

Who cares what comes next. Not everything has to be some stepping stone, it can just be a snapshot of a great ice cream cone. In a way, that's what even the best theater is: tonight's show will never, ever happen again. I'm glad for the present, that's enough.

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