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‘Oh God, The Sun Goes’ Is Strange, Surreal, and Utterly Sincere

It takes dedication to do something different—an unwavering commitment to one’s vision—to spend days, months, years working on something you know very well may be completely inscrutable to everyone else. Then it calls for boldness to take the dramatic step of actually showing the potentially incoherent work to others, confident or at least hopeful that there is someone else out there with a mind for it. Finally, on the part of the publisher it requires daring to take a chance and put resources behind the thing,

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