Here are some sad/funny things that writers, intellectuals, scholars, and artists say in response to other people’s creations in written comments or workshop settings that, for some reason, sound to them like valuable, incisive engagements, but really, really aren’t.
If commentators restrained themselves and spared others these insights, it would theoretically open more time for actual comments. But this would also mean that most intellectual, artistic, and scholarly commentary as we know it would vanish from the earth.