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“And who knows (one cannot vouch for it), perhaps the whole goal mankind strives for on earth consists just in this ceaseless mess of the process of achievement alone, that is to say in life itself, and not essentially on the goal, which, of course, is bound to be nothing other than two times two is four - that is, a formula; and two times two is four is no longer life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.”

a deliberate pouring from empty into void ….

I too think of myself as a highly conscious mouse, perhaps, but a mouse all the same

great wintry read!

“But I am staying in Petersburg; I will not leave Petersburg! I will not leave because … Eh! but it’s all completely the same whether I leave or not.”

forget the pale king, this book is a lesson in negotiating with boredom…

why is this just … a duller version of never let me go (there is something charming in its simplicity but it certainly doesn’t stick the landing)
only reading this to finally finish it after DNFing 2x like , 3 years ago?

Too many good quotes to count but - “The facility of the entrance into another world is an illusion: you start writing in a rush, anticipating the happiness of a future reading, and the void yawns on the white page.” 177

“Do the effusions of a graphomane have such power over you?” - 125. One of my favorite quotes this year.

“The past is like a tapeworm, constantly growing” 🤨

cloud atlas if it was good 😧

I agree with David Mitchell that this is the sort of book I’d absolutely love to have read in an undergrad narrative theory class…

“I can’t tell whether this kind of analysis is trying to simplify the world or subdivide it.”

I guess I did not begin this book without a warning about its misogyny - well, I’m sure it could be worse, but also I have a long way’s to go before this is over so it can definitely get worse…

I will not look at cooked tomatoes the same again…

if they do not mention whistlejacket by the end of this book I shall be very disappointed :( (also - I mean, most obvious Chekhov’s gun ever - “oh no there’s no horses in this gallery!!” - you are literally haunting the national gallery, I do not understand 😭)

rosalind franklin shoutout AND Cambridge setting were totally unexpected but, like, cool!!

(part one (well, the George one) read on the train to/from Edinburgh-London-Cambridge)

11.19.25 - Incarnations of Burned Children - read last minute this morning before rushing to lab - absolutely brilliant and heartbreaking.

Now it’s all as useless as repeating a dream.

back to old favorites!

NO MEAT FOR ME PLEASE

aka “Well, Adam, even friends are made of meat.” 😳

“(Cpt. Molyneux’s smile is that of a mummified crocodile I once saw hanging in a Louisiana dry-goods store.)”

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