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Ohhhhhh my fucking god........

ridiculously cool

This is such a joy

The goodreads reviews for this book perfectly encapsulate the kind of poor readers that proliferate this site. Also, no one understanding the basic points of fiction is so funny to me.

Loving this shit. “Pussy certified all-natural by the Daughters of the Witches You Couldn’t Burn or whatever Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival bullshit the TERFocracy in Maryland bowed down to. Fuck.”

Some criminally good writing in this one.

Need to sit on this one before I review. But wow.

Somehow this is deeply uninteresting…

This book.. “And now, after living beside you all these years, and watching your wheel of a mind bring forth an art of pure wildness-as I labor grimly on these sentences, wondering all the while if prose is but the gravestone marking the forsaking of wilderness (fidelity to sense-making, to assertion, to argument, however loose)- I’m no longer sure which of us is more at home in the world, which of us more free.

On his first ultramarathon: “There definitely was a being called me right there. And accompanying that is a consciousness that is the self. But at that point, I had to force myself to think that those were convenient forms and nothing more. It’s a strange way of thinking and definitely a very strange feeling-consciousness trying to deny consciousness. You have to force yourself into an inorganic place.”

“During the cold war, Haitian refugees fleeing US destabilization were detained and deported, while Vietnamese refugees characterized as fleeing despotic communist people’s army and viet cong forces were rescued and welcomed, thus revealing the geopolitics of the refugee order.”

Oh this is it👀

“Racist ethnonationalism and liberal multiculturalism both serve to uphold racial regimes through a social organization of difference. A proclamation like 'Immigrants steal our jobs,' and its rejoinder, 'our economy needs immigrants' treats immigrants as commodities to be traded in capitalist markets and discarded if deemed defective.”

One of the most impactful first pages of a novel I've ever read. Really enjoying this one.

First three stories knocked me the fuck out..... this book is really smart.