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Starting another book I probably won’t finish. Reading this in the abridged but it’s interesting so far and Vollmann is a good enough stylist to make it all feel colloquial and anecdotal despite taking on a fairly unwieldy project

'Dey bring dem bloodstain up here, sir, like water running up dem sidewalk.'

'You are yourselves at once a city wherever you sit down'