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Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
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Richard Meadows
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Cormac McCarthy’s Metaphysical Horror Show
IMAGINE THE TREPIDATION when you’ve read pretty much an author’s entire body of work, trying to pace yourself like a child with a gobstopper to make it last as long as possible, but inevitably all too soon you find clutched in your sticky fingers the very last words he will ever write: The Passenger and Stella Maris, companion novels published when the cancer inside his body was only months away f
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Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
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(This is a joint review of The Passenger and Stella Maris)If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it. —Cormac McCarthy IMAGINE THE TREPIDATION when y ...more |
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“Out in the real world, in which actual human beings live, it’s hard to come up with a more stupid example than 'ditching the daily latte'. Want to get your finances in order? Great! All you have to do is wean yourself off an addictive, stimulatory drug, which you’ve been using all your adult life, will cause withdrawal symptoms and impair your performance when you try to quit, is universally available, woven into the very fabric of social life, is the only addiction that carries no stigma whatsoever, and helped bring about the Enlightenment. Oh, and it’s also really frickin’ delicious.”
― Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
― Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
“Out in the real world, in which actual human beings live, it’s hard to come up with a more stupid example than 'ditching the daily latte'. Want to get your finances in order? Great! All you have to do is wean yourself off an addictive, stimulatory drug, which you’ve been using all your adult life, will cause withdrawal symptoms and impair your performance when you try to quit, is universally available, woven into the very fabric of social life, is the only addiction that carries no stigma whatsoever, and helped bring about the Enlightenment. Oh, and it’s also really frickin’ delicious.”
― Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
― Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
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