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I found it obvious, which pg admits, until this quote: "The same book would get compiled differently at different points in your life."

A nice analogy, as others have pointed out, and that is the thirteen-word summary I'll remember from this essay. Not bad, considering most thousand-page books will be compressed down to a page of take-away memories.




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