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This is not a banger

I’m having a miserable time here

20 pages in, this book is—like most books inspired by Pynchon—incredibly annoying, almost agonising, to read, sometimes I wonder, why I am not allowed to connect two independent clauses, to one another using a comma, yet every author, including Tao Lin, is allowed to do this, and it is considered, great, while I get the comment, comma splice