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📖 Ready Player One 🎙️ Episode 5 ⏱️ 42:47

The Rule

Eschew semantic satiation

Conor, you just inserted the word "classic" a whole bunch in those excerpts you just read...

A word becomes meaningless when you repeat it often enough.

Commentary

Obviously, Cline abuses the word "classic", but just as obviously most readers didn't notice it, as the word came to note just vaguely positive feelings about something or other.