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So many ways we are unconsciously influenced!

Weird ghost and "vampire"-ish things happening...

George Floyd, and the aftermath.

Even cremation hasn't stopped Flora.

Things were just going so well with combative Hetta and baby Jarvis, then she had to go ask about the father and piss her off. Some solstice celebration.

The chapter "L.I.P." (live in peace) has a bunch of woo-woo stuff trying to compare death to living some kind of real-world Schrödinger cat existence, or maybe something from a sci-fi story about time travel.

We are not our thoughts ( I am, therefore my brain thinks).

I had forgotten how close he comes to ending his troubles, and that the interruption includes the apple trees of his home.

Nice chapter on "simplex stepping" but it was hard to read about the Washington Post becoming a great paper when it has fallen so far controlled by Bezos.

Just finished the chapter about "the fog," now on to simplex stepping to find the way out.

Good intro from author's personal life, then exposition of Barbara McClintock, geneticist, & Grace Hopper, computer ... advocate? Mathematician turned computer scientist?

So weird.

Compelling story, even if there's not likely a bigger theme.