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I think living in Uganda for so long you undergo a sort of habituation to the beautiful environment that constantly envelops you. Reading Ryszard's descriptions of a typical shamba envoke a special nostalgia associated with how I felt when I first set foot here, when everything was novel and newfangled. Its nice. "This is Uganda - lush, riotously overgrown, endlessly germinating, multiplying, and seething."

Book 1 doneee

I'm going for it

State fair essay was amazing and even though I'm not from the Midwest it sounds a lot like central pa (corn, conservatives, and coronaries). Read through the next one and it was a bit too heavy so gonna switch to a lighter read and come back to it

Gonna update essay by essay but man oh man has this guy thought about television more than I ever would care to

Super interesting to read his takes on television and advertising from 1990 and compare it to the modern day equivalent with social media. Dfw you would have hated the 2020s brother

Let me try again

Oh this is gonna be a banger

First half of this has been a character either showing up unannounced or demanding Toru to go somewhere and just going "Okada I know your life is falling apart and you can't tell reality from imagination but sit the fuck down I got a story to tell you."