2025-06-15                         from the editor of ~insom
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  Moby Dick. Action Button reviews. Adam Curtis documentaries.

  I can only just start to see a line which can be drawn
  through these -- making a point through repetition and
  through wordiness -- immersing you in the world that they
  are building far more than just listing the facts or the
  events ever could.

  Moby Dick teaches you about whaling and all the types of
  whales and all the types of mariners not to just fill pages
  (though it does) but to pull you into the world. Is it
  neccessary for the story? No. A modern editor would pull
  that out and it would be a worse book for it.

  A case of the medium being message -- a shorter or adapted
  or summarized version of any of these would miss the point.
  Should Adam Curtis make documentaries that are less than 4
  hours long? No! Would a YouTube Short of an Action Button
  review serve any purpose? Not at all.

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