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I think I’ll like this book.

He starts out questioning the assumptions our economy is based on, and although this is very much a product of the 70’s, we don’t seem to have given it much thought since then.

I also didn’t realize how quickly our overproduction issues started piling up. We weren’t really mass producing plastic until after WWII.

“Why are you polishing the tile?”
“I am trying to make a mirror.”
“How can you polish a tile and make a mirror?”
“How can you do zazen and become a buddha?”

This guy honestly makes no sense. Wtf do you mean mountains always walk? Also just skipped two chapters about robes. Maybe I’ll learn someday🤷‍♂️.

Things are picking up a bit. It’s interesting how he draws from his own life for his books, which then affects his life again. There’s a weird fractally self-referential feedback loop there.

For those of you watching from home, I'm reading this book because Finnegans Wake is not giving me many footholds. I have a strange obsession with how he created it (and why it's fractal) and I'm hoping this scratches that itch. Based on the avalanche of obscure detail so far, there should be plenty to mull over. He's only 18 so far.

So sorry for the spam everyone😬

buckle in everybody, this is gonna take a while

And all the way (a horn!) from fjord to fjell his baywinds’ oboboes shall wail him rockbound (hoahoahoah!) in swimswamswum and all the livvy-long night, the delldale dalppling night, the night of bluerybells, her flittaflute in tricky trochees (O carina! O carina!) wake him.