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David, your statement that this whole thing "holds, in synedoche, everything significant about internet culture" is the worst kind of hyperbole, and you should be ashamed of yourself as a writer to have gone down that path.
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V. -- I like that catachresis, but once again I repeat, I am practical, and prefer synedoche.
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“K Street” is a synedoche for the influence peddling business, but it’s also an actual street and one you get east of 9th Street it takes on a much humbler character.
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Re ““K Street” is a synedoche for the influence peddling business, but it’s also an actual street and one you get east of 9th Street it takes on a much humbler character.
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““K Street” is a synedoche for the influence peddling business, but it’s also an actual street and one you get east of 9th Street it takes on a much humbler character.”
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