Brian S. Hook
1 min readMay 5, 2024

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I don't think any fault lies with your explanation, Adeline, but with the rarity of the product you request. I try to read/support lots of writing on Medium and I'm amazed at how little vivid, expressive writing there is (of the sort that I expect largely by default in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, etc.). But then I try to write it, and I find that I can't sustain it easily, either. I fall back into the trite, the obvious, the grandiose, the sentimental, the clichéd, the mundane. Great writing may not be quite as rare as those Hitching Post artichokes, but it's close. "Solid" writing is rare enough on Medium; orgasmic writing is falling-star scarce.

1. I'd probably go with the shrimp tacos. I can't remember the last time I had to use frozen cooked shrimp, to be honest.

2. I'd also use the FitBit since you have it. I wear a Garmin Forerunner 935 myself for triathlon training, and it's old and long outdated, but hey, I have it and it works.

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Brian S. Hook
Brian S. Hook

Written by Brian S. Hook

Dad, classicist, mountain dweller, erstwhile triathlete, wannabe woodworker, follower of Socrates and Jesus (two famous non-writers), writing to avoid raveling

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