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Lonelyache definitely read like a cathartic exercise, but I would disagree with Ellison in calling it one of his best stories

“We allow terrible things to happen, and turn our faces away in horror, but we never commit ourselves.” (Big Sam Was My Friend)

the analysis before the story adds so much depth, even when the message was already pretty clear. thinking a lot about Mickey Mouse parlor liberal.

title story lived up to expectations

once again angry at the gatekeeping/price gauging within the healthcare industry

never knew how the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand was nearly fumbled so hard

doing this for you arienne. and for you grace reiter, I want to watch the hunger games (but better) and have been wanting to read the original before that.

can’t believe peeta is actually spelled like that, lets go #katpee

got a headache for a day and a half or I would be done.

need this guy to stop pondering in a well

it wouldn’t be a haruki murakami novel without mind sex would it

I meant to update my page count

I have a headache

shitty monkeys eating shitty coconuts from shitty palm trees and shitting mounds on a shitty island

toru’s wife was acting sus from the get-go

can’t find the right edition in goodreads but I’m reading a version published in 1945

the girls (sentient bots/machines) are fighting :(

"A machine devised to supply every need of civilized humanity in one place has become a monster enclosing every form of vice and depravity. Only in England did murder continue to take place in country houses."

Impulsively decided to start reading this bc of "monte cristo mondays"