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“Nothin’ punk about dying. Everyone does it. Punk is about living hard - not hard like those A-type hustle-fetishist assholes, but HARD. You know. Stickin’ it. Guitar and a gun’ll give you the world, if you play ‘em well.”

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2024/01/19: I have disliked this entry every time I have reread it. Rather than delete it, I have decided to let it stand as a monument to my hubris — to the arrogance of thinking that I could attempt a surface-level expression of a literary trope without even 10-dollar words in compensation, and yet somehow magic a rabbit out of a hat to produce worthwhile prose.

(I dislike other passages too, of course. I suspect most writers dislike most of what they have written, and both envy and pity those who do not. But to refuse to even *try* to contribute an original thought or phrase — in a snippet about punk! — is so deeply self-oblivious that I refuse to allow you, dear reader, to proceed without the knowledge that this sin subsequently met its appropriate flagellation.)