I wrote an essay recently about starting a cult
escalation from the original smoking example
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Then I came along and changed the game. I famously took up smoking just so that I could quit and write about it.
This one seems to establish a logic that is illogical (same as the Columbus piece) where the action is absurd or not really fixing a problem. In the narrator's eyes, however, it is fixing something which is why this is a ridicule of the type of person who writes essays about quitting things
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