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"What poet can resist the temptation to “possess the origin of all poems,” - https://iwp.uiowa.edu/whitmanweb/en/writings/song-of-myself/section-2

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"'The Mayonnaise Chapter' is almost verbatim the text of a letter Brautigan found in a used book store." - http://www.brautigan.net/trout.html

Okay, this guy is obviously a literary genius!

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May 21, 2022·edited May 21, 2022Author

""[W]e loaded [it] down with books, a Coleman stove and a Coleman lantern, a tent, sleeping bags, diapers, and we took off for the Snake River country of Idaho. We'd camp beside the streams, and Richard would get out his old portable typewriter and a card table. That's when he began to write Trout Fishing in America. He had to learn to write prose; everything he wrote turned into a poem" (Kevin Ring 12)." - http://www.brautigan.net/trout.html

Sound familiar?

"The results, later incorporated in the first chapter of his most famous novel, were the beginning of a new (for Brautigan) literary form, the prose poem."

Okay, f**k you Brautigan. I invented the prose poem!

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Here is a better opening paragraph for a serious essay.: "I'm no philosopher, but I sometimes drink wine with philosophers, and by the time you get onto the third or fourth bottle, the conversation often comes around to the uncomfortable case of Martin Heidegger." - from https://dougald.nu/how-to-deal-with-the-nazi-philosopher-martin-heidegger-when-writing-for-a-general-audience/

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