Literary Friction Special - Elif Batuman
Literary Friction
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How Do I Have the Confidence to Make Abstruse or Obscure Jokes?
i feel like i got a lot more confidence, because i learned that a lot of jokes that i considered weird or abstruse would become popular with huge numbers of people. It's very hard to guess what's going to take off and what isn't - you learn it both from your own jokes and from seeing what kinds of jokes go viral. I think i grew up invested in this idea that people aren't the same as other people yo,. And now i'm really into anneogram which is really based on this idea that we're different from other people. You know, yes, yukno YUKNO! That means 'I don't have a different relationship with
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