"Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit."

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I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for me doesn't reflect the world, it extends the world, so that it becomes larger and more fantastic and less mired in this school shooting bullshit. It actually builds a future - that's how evolution occurs.

— Blake Butler