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“Or you may, as I did when I was encountering high shame levels at one point in the corrections, you may do a deep dive into selfanalysis and flounder for 6 months and finally have an idea for how to make what you thought was shameful ridiculous.”

“Um, and because because that's a way to within this well-ordered bourgeoa world, which is for better or worse the world I have to work with, it is a way to find more extreme emotional states and also get a more vivid kind of writing because if you hook into somebody who's like literally going crazy like in Crossroads, yeah,”