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Incredible hunting. Another vexing thing about the book (which I love as you know) was all the looseygoosey slinging of clinical terms, which seems a weird slipup for a scientist. But the Barthes abuse definitely a graver error!! I lol'd at the Jonah Lehrer plot twist

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This makes me love the Barthes Studies Bluesky account even more than I already did

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Oof the using epigraphs thing hits close to home but 100% spot on. Brutal to abandon them entirely but if present I'd say the text should engage and contextualize them.

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