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I restarted my reading progress with Solenoid. I was, I think, at the sixth chapter already; perhaps, I wanted to savor it; but, perhaps I did not get anything at all the first time.

What in the... "life can seem like a bad travel agency brochure, Paris Zagreb Venice Alexandria Trieste Cairo Beirut Barcelona Algiers Rome, or like a textbook of military history, conflicts, wars, my own, ..." (25).

"My childhood ended in Kiev on December 12, 1918. It was blown out of me by an exploding six-inch shell that took the life of my father, my brother Vanya, and Uncle Yury."

— what an opening line...