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Tags: #writing #learningWell, friends, it’s time for another installment of “I read something so good I have to tell you all about it.” Previous installments: the moth one, and the one about the eclipse. Today I’m here to talk to you about Something Defeasible, by Max Beerbohm. It’s a short essay, you can read it in the nicely formatted version I prepared, or over at Project Gutenberg from where I snagged the text. I’ll wait, or if you think you won’t read it just know that there are spoilers below that I’d rather Max get the credit for. The Pacific Ocean, near Davenport, CA. Christmas Day, 2024.I wasn’t reading this one for a self-assigned homework. I didn’t have any things to look out for, not counting similes or counting how many direct renderings there were vs allusions or abstract ideas. This one was just for, I don’t know, reading. Or for absorbing good examples of what good writing looks like. It’s in The Norton Book of Personal Essays.1 So I was just, you know, reading Max’s.…