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I think this is the loveliest thing written about literature and the human condition that I have ever read, and it was written by my agent.

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I come for the advice but stay for the metaphysics, I guess. What a resonant piece, and not only because I’m watching videos of LA burning while listening to Beautyland.

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Voyager always makes me cry and I don't even know why, really, other than I was a nerdy science-loving and space-loving kid in the Carter years. When the news had come that we had lost contact with Voyager II, I cried. When the news came that we'd reestablished contact, I cried. As always, I'm glad I'm not alone.

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This is beautiful. Thank you. What you say here about Carter's beautiful sentence made me think right away about something Robert Falcon Scott wrote as he was dying in Antarctica: "Had we lived, we would have had a tale to tell. . . ". Had we lived. The man is writing from after his own death. It's a courageous act, deranged and childlike, as you say. It's what we do.

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Wept.

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This is beautiful, and reminded me why I friggin love beauty.

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My freakin' HEART.

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This is so beautiful, thank you.

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Thank you for this.

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Astonishing! Thank you for this precious post.

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Thanks for this.

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