Aaron Haspel, self-styled “aphorist,” has a line: “Never trust anyone over thirty who reads novels. (. . .)When you are young[,] fiction is an indispensable way of acquiring experience on the cheap. As you age it becomes mere indulgence[.]” One is tempted to reply that it is someone who refers to themselves as an “aphorist” without irony that one ought to be wary of.
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