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“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”

“Somehow, a part of the world’s often mindless activity folded itself into minds”

obsessed with Calvin. Every guy should be more like Calvin

NICE oooooo that’s a good plot twist man oh MAN

this is SUCH an ambitious premise but I think he call pull it off

taking all my brain cells to remember the plot of the last book. flipping back and forth to the glossary

okay fuck crying by chapter six that’s gotta be a new record

really enjoying this but no WAY this main character is 16
also Eo is for sure not long for this world - I hope I’m proven wrong I think she’d be more interesting alive

“more and more it felt better to disappear into Pupkin’s dreams”

“A braneworld ekpyrotic universe is eternal cataclysmic cosmic applause.”
type shit.

so obsessed with Peter what a guy