So I suppose one danger is that we might get the idea that, you know, to blurt, is to be. The idea that whatever comes out is good and is us. Whereas someone who has really worked with text realizes well, that neither one is really you, but that the considered version might represent a higher you brighter, less willing to coast or condescend, funnier, and (mysteriously) also, I think, kinder.

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