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"El Vidente" es de lo mejor que se ha escrito en nuestra lengua y no planeo discutirlo con nadie. Solo por ese escrito: 5 estrellas.

"You're full of information like rock salt and as transparent, nonexistent as crystal. You're a motionless whirlpool. The abyss of light. You're a sound able to take me to incalculable depths: sensations I've never known. You're a commonplace: a bit of grass enlarged a billion times"

"I want to punish myself; I don't want other people punishing me without my permission. These people are eternally injuring me and nothing can repair those injuries. I'm a person like they are, and I am separate and inviolable (...) I've remade the outside prison inside me because there's no difference between outside and inside my mind: they release me from prison and I'm still in prison".

I've known this is would be one of my favorite books since I started it in 2022, but I've never been able to go further than chapter 3 for 4 years: "I imagine I'm flying through the night, twirling screaming yelling, I'm the wind; no one can stop me or do anything but love me."

*sigh* here we go again

P1, P2, & P5 are essential. The geometrical method (Spinoza's digression on emotions) is hugely lacking and the most frustrating part of the Ethics.

Started reading on insistence of a friend. Bit disgusted by the male narrator, standard fare.

Sometimes I feel I no longer want to read books written by men. Sometimes I want to give up on Thomas but then he strikes with 20 pages or so of vicious misanthropy using his "family" as crash test dummies that reflect the pathetic wreck of human hypocrisy and I'm all up for it

Haven't read this since my undergrad years. It's fine, a fun read but nothing trascendental. There are a lot of passages that point towards his shift in Symbolic Exchange & Death, even the gnosticism of later Baudrillard.

FYI: Abridged ed. in Spanish.