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I am committing to read 30 pages a day from now until the end of Lent so I can finally say I've read this from start to finish. ...maybe.

Come peace our war, the progress of Europe and America/Becomes a long process of deterioration... One desires at such times/To gather the insights of the age summit against future loss, against the narrowing mind and the tyrants/the pedants, the mystagogues, the barbarians: one builds poems for treasuries, time-conscious poems. (Prescription of Painful Ends c. 1939)

The only reason to have a musical number in a book is if the audio book orchestrates and performs it. That did not happen...

From a strong start, the story is starting to lose steam and the characters are less hilarious and more redundant. Hoping it finishes strong because I really *want* to love it.

"A little knowledge, a pebble from the shingle, A drop from the oceans: who would have dreamed this infinitely little too much?" (Science c. 1925)

thank goodness for Mostar in this chorus of otherwise boring and unlikeable characters.

Okay, fine. Everyone is hilariously awful and this book is a delight.

"while this America settles in the mould of it's vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire, And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass hardens..."

From Shine Perishing Republic (c.1925)

This book still promises to be a lot of fun, but I am frustrated with the way reviews and promotion of this book make it sound genre bending when it's just villainess isekai, and I feel like that source genre should be getting more recognition.

Time for the annual reread! This year's stand out quote "I have derived joy from things by which I have never profited "