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...intriguing. We may have to reconsider McGinn’s last-minute assertion that the book itself is not a mindfuck. The author does try to instill fear in his readers, appeals to a wide variety of authorities and examples to establish trust, and may have an ulterior motive??as indicated by the $18.95 cover price—all of which are potential qualities of the classic mindfuck. He even admits at one point that “the mindfuck can never advertise itself as such, it must always disguise itself as well-meaning rational persuasion...
This isn’t to say that the class was easy. In fact, the open-ended topics seemed deceptively simple. And identifying my “motive?? for writing—a central focus of Expos—was harder than I thought; sometimes the only motive I could think of for writing one of my essays was because it was assigned. What was the cosmic need to come up with a unifying theme for a collection of short stories, I wondered...
However, while it is typical of Palazzo‘s attitude to work on his game from all possible angles, in this case he had an ulterior motive??the jersey itself...
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