Status Updates From La Mer de la tranquillité

The forest and lakes and small towns subside into planes. The prairies are initially interesting, then tedious, then unsettling. There's too much of them, that's the problem. The scale is wrong. The train crawls like a millipede through endless grass. He can see from horizon to horizon. He feels terribly overexposed.

have we considered that 2025 sucked bc it was the only year since this was published that i didn’t read it?? my bad