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>Birthdays, like weddings, anniversaries, baptisms, bar mitzvahs, wakes, are occasions to retie family ties, renew family feuds, restore family feeling, add to family lore, tribalize the psyche, generate guilt, exercise power, wave a foreign flag, talk in tongues, exchange lies, remember dates and the old days, to be fond of how it was, be angry at what it should be, and weep at why it isn't.
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>>8596228
William "Sneakily Passing" Gass
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>>8596228
I actually think his stream of consciousness game is solid. Icicles and In The Heart of The Heart of The Country were great stories.
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This is precisely why I hate such events. They produce either guilt about the past or anxiety about the future. Neither is productive.
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>>8596242
William Gass has truly captured the zeitgeist of our time.
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>>8596228
Yep, that's what my family like to do at birthdays... we like to tribalize the psyche and wave a foreign flag... you nailed it, Willy... you're a really good writer...
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>>8596248
>zeitgeist of our time
Redundant
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>>8596269
It's important to specify which zeitgeist is being captured, especially for an old fart like Gass
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>>8596274
You could have said "our zeitgeist"
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>>8596310
But you live in the past and I'm from the future.
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