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Here’s the rule. Pay attention. If a very famous someone produces something good-not-masterpiece, you can’t praise it because they are too famous and your job as a talented-yet-unfamous person, when reading their stuff, is not to go, ‘Is this good? Am I enjoying this?’ but instead to say, ‘Is this as incredible as that one guy said? Is their fame deserved? Can I think of people who deserve their fame more?’”
“Really?”
“Yeah, absolutely,” the internet said.
"The Time I Tried to Defend Jonathan Franzen to the Internet « Gather Round Children
This entire piece is lovely and amazing.
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