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Treating as sort of a joint read with gravity’s rainbow cause I can only handle so much of that in one day, excited to learn about something I have only vague ideas about, first chapter is already incredibly insightful and I am a bit out of my depth but you don’t learn how to swim without getting in. Clearly written with a lot of love.

Page long description of Slothrop’s desk, feels so good to be reading Pynchon again I feel like I’m being drugged while reading this. Not as lost as I thought I might be tho

Le Guin is Le GOAT

Van Vogt simultaneously writing a satirical critique of hypermasculine attitudes in the Diamondian settlers yet also (so far) sincerely writing the prostitute revolutionary who “can only use sex to get men on her side” as someone to be seemingly saved by marriage to the main earth man is certainly something. He was born in 1912 so that checks out ig. Also rly funny that payphones exist in the year 3819.

Finished Empire Star, the novella attached to the book in the double. I don’t know which he intended to be read first but I picked Empire Star cause it was shorter. It’s a neat little romp about Comet Jo a “simplex” man and his journey to deliver a message to the galactic capital and into multiplexity which involves recognizing multiple POVs and a cyclical, disjointed view of time. Looking forward to Babel 17

I’m not reading this version, I have the 1831 version but can’t find that on here

Been a bit of a slog but it’s entertaining enough, I can feel a lot going over my head however