I needed feedback on my proposal. I asked a few different people. One is a particularly unfriendly professor and he just wrote me back the meanest reply which is also the most interesting one. I like what annoys him about my writing, it makes me feel more united about what a whack of other people might think and why. Like playing piano that time for the great musician who said to me you don’t know what you’re doing. Try such and such and he was right.