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Jonathan Katz
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Cleave the Sparrow
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2025
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But I had to keep going! A fun read. Interesting and makes you think about the possibilities of what's real and what's not" |
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“Odd, don’t you think, that everyone always talks about killing baby Hitler, but no one ever talks about going back to comfort him, help him through art school, and so forth. It’s always kiss kiss bang bang with time travelers.”
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"An absurd delight
In 1975 I watched a film that was a compilation of Monty Python skits. It was called And Now for Something Completely Different. When I left the theater, I said I hope no one ever asks me what this was about. That’s how I feel about " Read more of this review » |
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"lowkey one of the best and most entertaining books I've ever read. would make a great movie if done in a scott pilgrim vs. the world kind of way."
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"WOW!
Philosophical, funny, out of the box, and right up my alley. This has fundamentally changed how I look at life and my own existence." |
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“There’s a first mover problem in theology and metaphysics”
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| Sensational! Dastardly creative lunacy from cover to cover! Not to be missed, unless you're wearing a nice shirt and drinking a hot beverage. Daniel Eric Finkel is a comedic force to be reckoned with! ...more | |
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“Which suggests something ominous to me. That all our self-knowledge, all our dreams and motivations, our histories even, might be nothing more than a seat-of-our-pants, ex post facto rationalization of things that were decided billions of years ago by an ancient civilization of alien slugs.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Remember this when you’re considering the odds of your own existence—meaning the chances of your precise genetic combination emerging from the primordial ooze. As calculated by biologist Ali Binazir, those odds are 1 in 10 to the 2,685,000th power. That’s a one with two million, six hundred eighty five thousand zeros. It’s a number so absurdly large, it dwarfs our mammoth estimates of planets and digital humans. In fact, it dwarfs everything, everywhere. There’s really nothing larger in this whole universe than the improbability of your own existence, and yet here you are.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Thorp had tried to build a wall between North and South Dakota for some reason. He contracted the job to his son, and the whole thing turned out to be a money laundering scheme to fund disbanded Nicaraguan Contras who were launching a tech start-up in Ireland.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Which suggests something ominous to me. That all our self-knowledge, all our dreams and motivations, our histories even, might be nothing more than a seat-of-our-pants, ex post facto rationalization of things that were decided billions of years ago by an ancient civilization of alien slugs.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Performative violence is all you troglodytes can understand. So, we’ll do it that way.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Remember this when you’re considering the odds of your own existence—meaning the chances of your precise genetic combination emerging from the primordial ooze. As calculated by biologist Ali Binazir, those odds are 1 in 10 to the 2,685,000th power. That’s a one with two million, six hundred eighty five thousand zeros. It’s a number so absurdly large, it dwarfs our mammoth estimates of planets and digital humans. In fact, it dwarfs everything, everywhere. There’s really nothing larger in this whole universe than the improbability of your own existence, and yet here you are.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“Tom, do you know how evolution by natural selection works? — Mostly, yeah. — Then you know it’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent— — It’s the one with fins. — It’s the one who’s most responsive to change. — Oh, right.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
