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“Cruise ship essays read like an obituary for civilization,” writes in an essay for . She details her own experiences touring the Summer Isles in the Highlands of Scotland, and discusses the essays of writers including David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, Caity Weaver and more.

"The joke of all these essays is supposed to be that the reader is in on how horrible the essayist’s cruise ship experience is going to be. Ha-ha! Sending a fun-loving intellectual to go suffer among the MAGAs is not all that funny, I am now thinking; Decades later, this sneering, superior, high-ticket slumming seems just sad.”

https://flaminghydra.com/my-boat-essay/

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