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Comment by zitterbewegung | Hacker News Reader

The article seems to meander. I'm not sure what the author is trying to convey. It goes into tangents and seems to be extremely wordy and hard to read in general. Half the article seems to be about living outside of a car and the rest is about photographic guitars (why these aren't in two separate articles I am not sure).

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This is one of those that makes me ask "why is this on HN?" Not the passive-aggressive "I don't think this should be on HN" kind of thing. More, "no, seriously, why on earth did you think anyone but you would be interested in this rambling stream of consciousness. I'd really like to know because I'm obviously missing something."

At least one person (me) liked it, as a rambly interesting thing to read in the five minutes before leaving the office. So - I have no idea why the OP posted it, and it's definitely rather different from the usual things you see on HN, but I appreciate that they did. Cheers :)

(That said, I share another poster's confusion that F-holes are not mentioned!)

Five minutes seems overly optimistic ;)

...splits me in two when I see my eleven-year-old’s body, damp and limp, innocently tangled in his sheets...

It's in the first paragraph. I would like to publicly renounce a belief system that once seemed useful and true to me; I’ve outgrown the romantic escapism of this mode of travel. She recently published a book of photographs http://aperture.org/shop/highway-kind about "the idea of the American dream juxtaposed against the reality".

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