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MRI scene was horrifying

Phrases from Chapter 4:
- the titillation of the female pig
- Denmark's National Committee for Pig Production
- pig production researcher
- Five-Point Stimulation Plan for sows
- the old water-balloon-in-the-cow study
- a thirty-two year old blonde with a prolapsed uterus

Giggling out loud

ready to be done with this one already y'all ...

Did not need to know that about Kinsey and his toothbrush

Does anyone have any good life advice for me?

it feels like in a dream when you're running somewhere and you just keep getting further away -- i shouldn't make my main goal just to finish this book, hehehe, but i hope i do someday. microdosing it over a long period is making me internalize its ideas a little better, or i'd like to think so at least

just made it to the end of the First Life... at this rate i will finish the book by 2030 maybe

done with chapter 3, that's something, although i am totally completely overwhelmed with information and data and historical facts and dates... phewww

OKAY GUYS. i'm done reading artsy novels for a while. i need recommendations for either deeply political nonfiction or fantasy murder mysteries or creepy scary ooh aahhh horror. HELP!!

i think this is going to be sad but mostly i'm giggling really hard right now

Okay... when you read further than the first two chapters it all starts to make some more sense... And you see how Orientalist knowledge from like the 15 16 1700s had real empowering effects on colonialism later in history

INFORMATION OVERLOAD! HELP! The gist so far is: California's economy evolved in this specific way, scraps of welfare were given out and huge spending in military interests allowed for economic prosperity. The situation changed (1970s, post-Fordism), the system couldn't reproduce itself, excess capital, land, labor CRISIS! And the crisis was not solved in interest of people rather in interest of capital, with prisons

Apparently i've read this chapter before, my highlights are all over the PDF, although i don't remember any of it...
'Space acquires emotional and even rational sense by a kind of poetic process [...] The same process occurs when we deal with time. Much of what we associate with or even know about such periods as "long ago" or "the beginning" or "at the end of time" is poetic—made up.'

this is my read before bed book, i didn’t realize it’d be so much about grief and loss LOL, every night i read 10 pages. it’s like watching a TV show

I like reading books a lot

Hello

Through chapter one. It's interesting reading this and hearing Gilmore's voice in my head. It was a lot of theory and definitions just now, but I think I'll learn a lot. One detail that matches up with Gilmore's interviews is her definition of racism as the state-sanctioned production of vulnerability to premature death for specific groups (not easy to put succinctly).

the sand is practically a character of its own