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He once ranted for seventy-five minutes on Oscar Wilde’s foretelling of the advent postmodern school, an avant-garde movement characterized by the denial of objective truth, and what the socio-cultural implications were that McDonald’s Corporation had two months prior decided to publish short excerpts from The Critic As Artist on the back of Happy Meal boxes, directly under the listed Nutrition Facts label which, as always, was typographically set in Helvetica.*


*A decidedly hipster font, utilized by such classical literary acts as Tao Lin who, throughout the early 21st Century, actively contributed to a paradigm shift which drastically restructured the mainstream’s view of ‘alt’ subcultures into a more accepting, more inviting one (i.e., a more inviting perspective).