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Re:Literary Hoax is an Underappreciated Genre by creep on Thursday November 01, 2018 @03:14PM (#18357399)
"the idea of a book being “fake” greatly misunderstands the vagaries of imaginative thought, whose tendency is to trawl the idiosyncratic detritus inherent to its mimesis regardless of the spuriousness or relative candor of its constitutive parts. "

An interesting idea overall (the article) but I stopped reading there.

Re:Literary Hoax is an Underappreciated Genre by monkpit on Thursday November 01, 2018 @04:23PM (#18358053)
“Back away from the thesaurus!”
Re:Literary Hoax is an Underappreciated Genre by apocalypstyx on Thursday November 01, 2018 @04:31PM (#18358129)
Strike a blow for polysyllabic sesquipedalianism!
Re:Literary Hoax is an Underappreciated Genre by retsibsi on Thursday November 01, 2018 @08:57PM (#18359903)
I know HN dislikes lazy dismissals, but I think the downvotes here are a bit harsh. This is unreadably turgid prose, and quoting it here saved me from a frustrating experience.