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I've never wanted to re-read The Iliad more.

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Everything about this made my day. Which is 100% more day-making content than I’d set out to consume, so… goal surpassed and I’m off to take a nap!

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BRILLIANT! This week,I interviewed a title whiz and we also talked about clickbait. Guess your titles deliver on their promise :D AWESOME idea!!

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Those are brilliant and hilarious!

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Nah. Cyclopses has to be though I have to say autocorrect is in your side. (But it's us humans against the autocorrect) Great post and great spur to thinking of more of them rather than doing any actual writing

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I thought it was Cyclopses for sure but every dictionary entry I found seems to disagree

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I love 'em! :D:D:D

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I love 'em! :D:D:D

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If you haven't yet, could you please do a whole series of these? This is brilliant. "Clickbait Classics."

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Brilliant, just brilliant.

Just one question though -- the one with the burning house, is that Jane Eyre? I was thinking of Fall of the House of Usher at first, but then I realized that the house in that story got disintegrated, not burnt down.

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I love the titles next to the images 👏

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Yes how does that work on Substack? I can only get images between text paragraphs.

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I added the text next to the images using Photoshop. But I wish Substack let us do this natively!

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You can also use Canva or Google docs and then take screenshots or download as JPEG’s or something depending on the tool

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