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Originally Posted by cybmole
And peeve 2 is the arty smarty epigraph, which is where the author quotes some obscure dead white guy, usually, to prove that he/she is better educated than you will ever be.
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Quick question: why would you want to read a book by someone to whom you attribute those kind of motives/intentions? And how does editing it out help you ignore that the author wants you to feel like you're dumber than them? It just doesn't make much sense to me that you'd want to read the work of people you apparently feel such spite toward.
Don't get me wrong; I have no problem at all with you not wanting to read that stuff. I just think it would be a lot easier to tap the page-turn button (or screen), than to manufacture an imaginary agenda on the part of the author to make you feel inferior for buying their book and reading it.