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"I needed her to understand that the most pressing problem was not my mental state but the state of the world. The danger was objectively real. There was no guarantee that the needle of crisis, which had always pointed away from us, at other families in other places, would not swing in our direction."

"Plot is the artificial reduction of life's complexity and randomness. It is a way to gove aesthetic form to reality."

Ahh, the moment I thought the horror of being observed while writing was such as Satre's Other, the book proceeds to reference Satre.

I am looking forward to how this book will portray the manosphere and the radicalisation of the authors beliefs.

The conversation on what a chair is vs a bench brings brings me back to first year metaphysics seminars at uni

"The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is better, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my emotions in a way reality can't anymore. I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet."

Ahh when TV & movies were listed over the crushing influence of social media over a decade ago

omg they were roommates 😭👀

this is off to a good start - less than 20 pages in and I can already tell I like the writing style

this is off to a good start - less than 10 pages in and I already can tell I like the writing style

so far 'the creative' sounds like the type of pretentious twat I'd be friends with lmao

I love Ruth Ozeki