When You've Seen The Best, Quit The Rest
For those of you bloggers who "Fisk" please go to Lileks. Read what he has done. And promise never to attempt one yourself ever again. It's a perfect specimen of the style and once it's been done this well everything else will look like common hackery (something I know a little about) in it's wake.
It's what it must have been like for contemporaries of Bach when they heard the Brandenburg Concerto(s) for the first time. Yeah, they could have finished the inferior pieces they were working on and let them be judged side-by-side with Bach's masterpiece, or they could move on to something else where the master hasn't defined the genre.
Please, I ask of you, no more Fisking.
I'm not sure why, but I'm reminded of a line from Cheers:
Sam: Carla was complaining that she missed out on all that teenage stuff, you know homecoming, proms. What if we do something to take her back to her teen years?
Rebecca: Like get her pregnant?
Cliff: Nah. That's been done to death.
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