Sophistication isn’t educated snobbery, fastidious pickiness, brand arrogance, or only accepting esoteric ingredients – it is merely an outcome of self-knowledge that lets you know what you like and why you like it. It’s self-awareness in regard to one’s preferences.

— Asher's Maxim 66

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Asher Black is a former literary and review editor who writes, thinks, reads, listens, and is interested in the interior darkness of the soul.

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