Status Updates From A Flash of Green

For a long time he had fitted sensibly into the steady progress of his days and nights, knowing without any effort ....Now the internal timekeeping device had stopped. Three hours could disappear between heartbeats, and ten minutes could appear to last all afternoon. It had the remembered flavor of childhood, when Saturday was always a vast glad surprise, and Monday was a generation away.

Once it is dead, nothing can be proven. All glorious speculation is valid.

P168

"But he fought for what he believed."

"Most men do, up to a point. But when they stand to lose too much, and gain too little, they think up reasons to stay out of it."

Still a good story. Nice to watch Eco-kooks get crushed, but I suspect in the end a Green New Deal will prevail. Fun watching them suffer in the meantime though. Natch, the protagonist is Madly In Love with some useless Hoetagonist.

This part is bullshit.

This guy's ratio is appalling. But he's still not as bad as Vonnegut, Faulkner, Joyce, Stephen King, Tolkien, .... But when I'm done with this list there will be NO looking back. Hard to believe he could sit there and type this stuff in good conscience -- unless he was getting a LOT of money. I doubt he got that much money. Probably had a drug habit, or was a gambler.

I shoulda read the blurb: Eco meets True Love. I swear JDM was on drugs.