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The writing style in this is identical to how I write in my journal: “..but I am ashamed to distract my reader’s attention for such a long time to such ordinary lackeys, and therefore I shall go back to my narrative..”

Forgot how much I missed reading Dostoevsky

I love how DFW writes about tennis and how he describes individual points in a game.. he makes it so easy to get lost in his descriptions— even when I have to flip 300+ pages to refer to the ‘Notes and Errata’ mid-sentence

Part 2: If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down on his shoulders— what would you tell him to do?
To shrug.

Part 1: My fingers and the edges of my books pages are smudged with ink because I’m gripping the book too hard. What an incredible work of writing - Rand writes with such precision and clarity without sacrificing any detail it’s only too easy to get absorbed in her world. I found myself needing to take breaks because some of her characters are REALLY pissing me off.. give Rearden the divorce papers already