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T. Cannon's avatar

Thomas! Good stuff! (This comment is to be placed on the left side of the curve).

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First of all, congrats with 2k subs! Glad to be a 0.0005th part of it, and a 0.019th part of 'Literally Just Outside'.

I'll just throw two random facts this time (is this a way to avoid the middle? who knows):

1. Dostoevsky too feared the middle: "Most of all I dread mediocrity : a work should either be very good or very bad, but, for its life, not mediocre. Mediocrity that takes up thirty printed sheets is something quite unpardonable."

2. There is a french word 'Nanar' that describes particularly cinema that is "so bad, it's good". It's used to group something like B-movies, thrash-kind-of-films, that are notoriously bad yet 'watchable' because of their naiveness and almost surreal bad production. Some of these films, like The Room, have become iconic and have some cultural value (paradoxically). (shameless self-promo plug - I'm writing a piece about that 🤞)

Cheers,

John

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