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Quotes Digital Fortress p 347

In some ways this reminds me of Chris Bohjalian’s homage to Fitzgerald’s Gatsby. The gender switches provide food for thought.

Question: Is ambition Coriolandis’s fatal flaw or is he societally conditioned to believe himself superior?

Did anyone else have to take a break now and then because the insidious creep toward self serving amorality is too close to reality?

So far I am getting useful information and appreciate the author’s anecdotal style. I have vestibular issues, which make this topic is extremely interesting to me. I don’t know how much the field has changed in the past eight years, but am extremely grateful for the high tech therapy available to me.

Angelic connections of names- Seraphina, Raphael, Celestine, Gabriella, Angela, Evangeline,

I like this so much that I have bought it so I can refer to uplifting passages as needed.

Engaging so far

Lovely nuggets:
one of the characters has a friend in Charleston who can speak to ghosts
The obnoxious snob Prunella Schuyler from Glass Ocean resurfaces

Is Blake’s sister Kirstin or Kristin? At first I thought I had transposed letters while reading, but I have found both spellings numerous times.

Covid does strange things to people.

I’m not even halfway through, but this is one of those rare books that I purchased after reading 75 pages of a library copy so that I can highlight text and keep the recipes.