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needlessly long and obtuse post, exhibiting a certain floating snippiness.
implication that the poster is the only person who knows anything not only about the matter at hand, but all other matters as well.
conversely, implicit challenge to the competence of all posters on the thread to post anything about this or anything else for that matter.
as the post gets longer, the self-erasing quality of it becomes more and more evident.
increase in floating snippiness.
a piling up of gratuitous snarky remarks aimed at conservatives. supplemented maybe with an arbitrary confessional moment or two.
in some alternate universe, one can assume that the second element is understood as mitigating the effects of the first.
with each new element, the self-erasing character of the post increases.
the self-eraure/snippiness dynamic develops a life of its own.
potential realization of problematic situation that is developing but will not be erased resolved by deploying an even more impenetrable wall of academic terminology.
obvious signal of continued impact of the self-erasing/snippiness dynamic in the swelling typo rate. letters sprayed about.
the post gets longer: clearly it is now about nothing other than anxiety about loss of control. the writer appears to be wrestling with a firehose shooting streams of letters about under higher and higher pressure.
arbitrary ending passed off as a conclusion.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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