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SwellJoe on Aug 30, 2007 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Not to Die

"1) How can a just-now-released essay be influential at all?"

It can, obviously, be very influential to one reader...and instantly. Time is irrelevant once it reaches that one reader.

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