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   Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 11:24:18 JST Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

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   (2) So what is it? It's a speech that he gave lots of times and was gradually transformed by him and others into what it now is. The history of how people wanted to read it has everything to do with its final form.

   So first: why is it bad as an aesthetic artifact? I'll get to various other kinds of badness later.

   tl/dr: It's bad because it uses simple repetition for a sentimental effect.