Status Updates From Guide

Is is the most romantic DC book yet?

'(...) I have this sensation of being inside something specifically generated by Luke. It's all about warmth, but it doesn't have the huge, impersonal blandness of sunlight, or the detailing and slight insanity of a flickering fireplace, or the clinical heat of a heater, or the wild rush you get plunging into a hot tub. It's a weaker heat, more poetic, and it practically itches'.

"Then I remember what I do when I’m not stoned. You know, write novels that are essentially long, involved wishes for offbeat utopian worlds that I can’t realistically enter. And within a few seconds I have this idea, which, if it’s not obvious, involves writing a novel/sigil that has a wish neatly embedded inside it. I guess it can’t hurt."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 66). Grove Atlantic.

"It made me feel like a kid. Or maybe I felt like a parent, because it wasn’t as if the tale itself became real. But Chris did. Or his story did."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 44). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

"Truth is dry. You’ll know the truth when everything in your world seems as if it’s been cooked until nothing is left but the exact information that separates it from other things in the world."

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 22). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

“So what if a piece of wood discovers it’s a violin.” —Arthur Rimbaud

Cooper, Dennis. Guide (George Miles Cycle Book 4) (p. 2). Grove Atlantic. Kindle Edition.

nearly done with guide and I think the saddest line from him for me thus far is ‘Then, while the call’s being transferred to his room or wherever, I hang up’ like idk what abt it but it has made me miserable

im very intrigued and sort of enjoying this more than the others but idk if it’s just recency bias. is this rendition of dennis the narrator the same as frisk? is he a mirror of himself? 😞

starting this while listening to onanist this is peak