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You are hard done by, the Past is a better country, just make this mark and there will be Change. The Change is never explicitly described, only its certainty and benefit.
Previously published* The story of the lost script, the lost manuscript, the proof eaten by the dog are all both stereotypical and common for writers whichever tool they've used to record their words, whether cuneiform, paint, ink, print or electromagnetic bits. For most writers that's been
We are perpetually, perhaps even cyclically, possessed by our perception of social discourse now primarily in social media. We compare it unfavourably with how it used to be, before Trump, before Brexit before whatever time; before the Interweb, before Facebook, before Twitter and Reddit. The relative heat, the name calling,
It isn’t a matter of rank or seniority, though it is connected, it is whether you are in the circle, the gang, one of the guys, ‘U’ rather than ‘non-U’. It is a social group as well as authoritative.