and was delighted to discover he wrote a very good and funny short story. It's about a guy who reads the wikipedia page about Maoism in the middle of the night and decides to make it his whole personality.
this is great. and even though it is funny and it does say the word 'maoism' a lot, i feel like that really buries the lede that this is a really incisive character study of someone suffering from a pretty subtle affliction - an engagement with new ideas that always follows along the axis of what engaging with it will mean to you, your outwards character, and how it will impact interactions you will have in the future. it's a mode of thought i catch myself in as well, detrimentally. well worth a read if you're like me in this regard (derogatory)
