Counter-suggestion: Only use references that you either expect everyone to pick up on, or ones which are mostly invisible to people who don’t recognize them. It’s tasteless to add incongruous references and then expect people to follow your link which describes the clever aside you just made.
I suppose it would be asking too much to just suggest that if a sentence or phrase seems out of place or perhaps even surreal, that readers could just assume it’s a reference they don’t get, and skip it?
If the resulting argument doesn’t make sense, then there’s a legit criticism to be made.
Counter-suggestion: Only use references that you either expect everyone to pick up on, or ones which are mostly invisible to people who don’t recognize them. It’s tasteless to add incongruous references and then expect people to follow your link which describes the clever aside you just made.
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I’m gonna go eat worms...
I suppose it would be asking too much to just suggest that if a sentence or phrase seems out of place or perhaps even surreal, that readers could just assume it’s a reference they don’t get, and skip it?
If the resulting argument doesn’t make sense, then there’s a legit criticism to be made.
But I like you!!! I like humans!!!
It’s just that I regard your expositions as disinformative.
Exposition… disinformative?… contradiction… illogical, illogical… Norman, coordinate!