Status Updates From Extinción

The Soul is Not a Smithy: this story and the previous are stuffed with non-sequiturs that make them hard to finish. still held my interest tho.

Incarnations of Burned Children: Can I have more of these? All killer no filler?

Mister Squishy: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

Can only be described as the most David Foster Wallace thing ever written.

I had to stop reading early during my break at work as to not cry. This story is what I am imagining Infinite Jest brings into in regard to how hollow and deep these feelings and emotions are. Some might think this story is self-deprecation but jesus christ I'm getting hit like a truck reading this. Story 5: 5/5

Good Old Neon: 3.5/5

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: 3.5/5

Mister Squishy: Comment on advertising or no don’t, discuss men and their inevitable creepiness, or wait is this about spectacle and the malleability of public opinion? there was all that stuff about crowds. I’m confused tbh.

Not finished, but taking a break on this one since reading DFW takes so much out of me.

My thoughts on the stories I’ve read so far, but only in score mode cause there’s a word count here. Will save thoughts for final review.

Mister Squishy: 2/5

The Soul is Not a Smithy: 4/5

Incarnations of Burned Children: 3/5

Another Pioneer: 5/5