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Susan Orlean
Personal blog · susanorlean.com/articleswritingculture
Susan Orlean's personal blog at susanorlean.com covers writing and culture. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Susan Orlean's article about an orchid collector, which one commenter cites while speculating that the Shining photo investigators enjoyed the process of the puzzle. No comment praises or judges the writing.
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What Hacker News says?
I wonder if the "investigators" were subconsciously not that interested in actually solving the mystery, but were just enjoying the process. Can't remember what it was I was reading recently, but there was a character who deliberately did things the hard way, or in a convoluted way, because it satisfied something inside of him. Edit: It was this article about an orchid collector: https://www.susanorlean.com/articles…
Comment linking /articles/orchid_fever.html
on “45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved”Submitted Lost Dog (2005) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Animal Action (2003) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shoot the Moon (1993) as a story · 1 points
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