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I already dig this guy!

Very exciting when red-shifting, blue-shifting was mentioned! I was like: ooh ooh ooh I just read about this in The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)!

Ok, The Fool "as the ultimate codependent" and "pushing us forward, away from complacency" is highly relevant to the work of Robin Hobb and also Fitz's character flaws, thank you very much.

Evolutionary biologists can't explain why fun is fun.

Haha, love you, David Graeber. Wish you were still here...

Ooh some ETA Hoffman commentary too???

This chapter on opening the heart I need to reread with my eyeballs 😭 she talks about queer and gender non conforming children and it's nothing 'new', but it's just beautifully written.

Really appreciating how this collection is put together in themes. There's a nice flow. Part 3 ends with an essay ending in why he's an anarchist and part 4 starts with an essay called Are You an Anarchist?

Dead Zones of Imagination explains why bureaucracy is state violence and it's so validating, cause that's how I've always experienced it as someone with adhd.

Loving this, the writing is great.

I just hope stuff like this gets examined and subverted (surely it will?!): "And now he tithed not as lord, taking a small portion in exchange for protection and justice, but as a thief, taking what he wanted and offering in return only fear. Local farm men had banded together in summer and tried to take him, but he was a lord, well-mounted and well-armed;"

Hello Schismogenesis, my old friend!

This end bit about how astrophysicists feel about the death of the universe (wildly different!) is really lovely, it's all about feelings in the end and the uncertainty and all that.

I love this book so much and Rachel Pollack is an amazing storyteller, with clarity and kindness and creativity. I feel like she is the perfect intro to tarot for me :D

The first essay about how 'There is no West' was a banger.

Oh this is funny, democracy actually means the force / violence of the people (Kratos, not Archos, which would be power), and how they knew when people were upset and they were exercising their democratic rights was because they were rioting. 👀👀 (I'll put in the quote when I get home, for now I'm listening to it)

Love that David's partner right out says in the introduction what the ultimate hidden truth of the world is, lol.

Is it weird that I find this thing about the end of the universe somewhat soothing?

Funny that making a jigsaw puzzle increases entropy 🥲 because of the effort you put in and the co2 you release while um breathing lol, even if a completed jigsaw has a low entropy. I know it's just an example, it just feels weird to exist and create entropy, I guess.

This feels like one of those slippery (pun intended) vague dystopia things. I wish this type of books would commit more to their weird premise!!

Not sure if I'm enjoying this for itself or because it's narrated by Frankie Curzo who did The Fortunate Fall and and I find their voice very soothing and I associate it with that book.

"You said he was a being of tremendous power and evil, but I’ve looked him up. He’s got a wife and family. He’s on LinkedIn.”
“Those are the worst sort. "

Loll.

I also think the author is doing some interesting, wry political stuff here - for instance, half of the village is pro-superstore, half is anti, which feels very two-party system.

Had no idea what to expect from this, since it's been on my TBR for many years, but I find it quite fun so far! It's a bunch of women trying to stop this big supermarket from opening in their little Cotswolds town.

Love a mention of Buffy and her apocalypses in the introduction.

OK, this tarot reading doesn't seem legit :p

This is such a painful account of how the world we grow up in just makes you gaslight and not trust yourself and how it tries to fit you into a mold, blocking off other ways of knowing, your instincts, your feelings.

The writing of this is amazing. I wish I could listen to Joy Harjo reading it, cause her saying her poems in the audiobook of An American Sunrise was so good!

Total coincidence, but as Pollack is talking about a reading with the 2 of birds card, I open my window and see two magpies (two for joy!!), which feels nice a.f.

This is cute! Exactly the vibe I always return to K. Ancrum for!

Yeah, I'm totally exhausted by Maddie at this point :(

"The answer is greed. We are dying of greed. I don't know the cure for that."

Ain't that the truth...

I already have a feeling I won't be able to find the words to explain why I love this book so much 😭