Re: Pointing at things

I think I’ve been darting around this question for a while now:

...I think we’ve all been taught to write in a style that forgets the reader entirely. My English degree taught me, incentivized me in fact, to write poorly with this sort of obfuscatory language, “nevertheless...”, “in this essay I will set out to...” etc.

All that stuff is me pointing at me, pointing at a thing. But we should just get out of the way of the thing we’re pointing at!

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