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@romanhelmetguy

Reading any bit of scrap written in English between ~1850-1950 feels like stumbling upon a lost civilization of 140 IQ geniuses compared to what our elites put out today. Random letters by soldiers show more erudition than Harvard PhDs.

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The novels of Raymond Chandler -- nominally hardboiled mysteries -- will multiply that impression manyfold.