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one of the dangers of listening to a very funny audio book in public is that you do end up looking like a crazy person

really sunk cost fallacy-ing my way through this book

“there is indeed a path which joins all the mirrors in the world”

Natasha Pulley my GOAT I’m so ready to sob

okay. crying.

obsessed with the way Gwendolyn constantly racks up HR violations in the name of tHeAtEr

pffff AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED-

Connell…. you’re pissing me off… I’m seeing red Connell

“The French director had died tragically by falling off a bar stool. ‘They said it might have been suicide’ Svetlana said.”

god I forgot how delightful good horror can be

“The kitten had an inferiority complex and persecution mania and nostalgie de la boue and all the rest”
terribly depressing book but god that made me laugh
saaaaame

I do enjoy a narrative that flusters the victorian gentleman. put him in Situations!!!!

in case you ever wanted to know what it would be like to smoke a joint with an officer from the Shackleton expedition

“fish have learned to differentiate between different styles of music”

“we should at least consider the possibility that the octopus is a being of multiple selves”

okay. crying.

okay. so why is shane actually pissing me off.

“sea horses would float up like porcelain birds”

Ilya immediately and shamelessly adopting Shane’s parents is soooo sweet. he just like “I am your child now. feed me pasta”

“…when [animals] evolved multicellular sensing: encouraging parts of their bodies to become maps or reflections of fragments of their surroundings”

I just KNOW she’s planning something heartwarming and tragic. I can feel it cooking

stooooooooop they’re getting emoootional….. they LOVE EACH OTHER………

“that is the arthropod way of evolving. when in doubt, add some legs. add some spatulas to your head!”

“their bodies scrunching into incomprehensibility when they fell”

🫡fujoshing out at Mamdani’s direction🫡

something about Shane buying out an entire building just so they’ll be ensured privacy when they meet up - this combination of great freedom and incredible un-freedom….
you bet your ass I’m bringing my english degree to this book

“when we build a computer we build something that will be distracted as little as possible by the undirected ruminations of its chemistry” I LOVE THIS BOOK

“if bacteria invented transistors what were they doing with them? why did they need to control electricity with electricity?”

“at this scale activity arises spontaneously without being made to happen”