We Are Pirates

I LOVE Daniel Handler's style. LOVE it. I know it's not for everyone, but it is for me.

(I read this on vacation and I read part of it aloud to my traveling companions. They stared at me blankly and one of them said, “I think he's trying too hard.” WHATEVER.)

Look: if you like Daniel Handler's pretentious, hilarious, jam-packed sentences: you will like this. If you do not like Daniel Handler: this will not convert you.

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“I don't want a date,” Gwen said. No one would understand this. It is the presumed mission of all women, a quest for a man, and no amount of bloodshed can dissuade the myth.

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AMAZING, HONESTLY