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Reading this feels like being sunburned, I cannot elaborate further

Starting a reread a year later. On any given day there’s a 50/50 chance I’d call this my favorite book. Perhaps that makes me the most insufferable person around

Interested to see how this will unfurl and become the “greatest” piece of English literature.

passage I’ve now read at least six times over

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate-died of malnutrition-because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.”

I’m not sure I’ve ever been so captured by a book. I also didn’t know poetry could be this way.

A treasure. The humor sort of insists on itself in a way that makes you forget how ridiculous it all is. Funniest book I’ve read that’s for sure

Just got through “the depressed person” and was rather amazed. This is a side of mental illness I rarely hear mentioned.