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I like this story but I cannot read anymore about oil film space dust and engine propulsion please

It’s good but what’s happening

This book is so whimsy

Wtf

This is something

Almost lost me in the prologue but now I’m with it

I fear this may be an amazing idea poorly executed…we shall see

"Wasn’t it Odo who said where there’s property there’s theft?

'To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.'"

Not sure how to focus on this when I can’t stop thinking about the biologist and the owl and the psychologist and poor Saul evans.

Long live the lighthouse keeper

I should be rereading annihilation but I’m sure it’ll be fine

But yk like 160 because of the 30 page intro

The intro was 30 pages so technically I’m on page 30 right

“We put poison out for rats and protest their use as laboratory animals. We shoot deer in the fall and show their adorable offspring to our children in spring. Vertebrate pests lay bare our internal hypocrisy.”

“Why did Nikolai have to live in this time. All he wanted was a quiet place. Somewhere between all the events of history—the war and butchery, the revolutions that smeared cobblestones streets with blood, the religious fanaticism, the burning of cities—there must have been so many quiet times, so many safe places. Gaps where one could hide an entire life.”

"When a brown hare senses a fox stalking it, it does not run. It stands tall and faces its pursuer. The fox then knows it has no chance of catching the hare. This saves both the danger of a pointless chase.
In the animal world, cooperation can even exist between predator and prey.

In our human world, the predator will pursue its prey until both are destroyed in fury."

Expectations high

I started reading and realized I was reading things I’d already read. Idk. Redacted.

Actually have no clue what’s happening, don’t recommend this to your bookclub (but I’m still into it even though I’m quite confuzzled)

Playing “homeless” as a child instead of “house” is crazy work

1 instance of unprompted ear licking is already too many times.

Home stretch