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read a modest proposal aloud to collin, backtracking now

it isnt easily sustainable to read manifesto after manifesto

the people’s park section hit me hard, and gave me an idea about a short film. i keep drawing connections to all the things mom mentions. and she was scared berkeley would turn me away from her…

waverhouse vs straight man: a fun read

constantly seeing connections back to San Francisco, Berkeley, Alameda county, etc

the assumptions of the future, the form of each section, this book is a hidden oasis until itself, offering a glimpse into a specific sliver of humanity at a tumultuous time. it is really something to read an article and then look up to the world around me.

i appreciate the humor much more now, as the characters take a more solid shape. the wording is honestly immaculate, and it makes me curious about how deliberately the translator must have worked, since the alliteration never seems to fail.

predestination, fate, God’s plan, God’s intervention

perversion of Mother Mary, Jesus, and God in the form of Athena (?), Death, and Satan; golden chain pendant as metaphor for the world

trying the sabel method

discovering a new underground magazine each read

the voice of the author is becoming much more pronounced and the impact is greater in the 2nd chapter, although i liked the repetition of the first lines to Rickshaw Blacky and the description of Rickskaw Blacky as the tale went on was poignant and my heart ached for the poor cat who realizes the unimportance of his rat catching abilities (which he used to greatly esteem)

attempting to do one passage a day

i feel a strange sense of power in my hands. ive never reviewed on goodreads but i feel a strong pull to do so after finishing this book.