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Every time this gets too cliche or cringey for me, I just switch tabs to an article on Keynesian economics.

Okay, I know this is supposed to be a shitshow...but it's good??

I can't do this. This is unironically the cringiest shit I've ever read.

"Then, one day, you'll see on a
piece of paper before you a building that will make you want to kneel; you won't believe that you've done it, but you will have done it; then you'll think that the earth is beautiful and the air smells of spring and you love your fellow men, because there is no evil in the world."

"Annabel"
"by the side of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride"
so many other references to Poe.

I see the Poe influence here, and I'm intrigued!
I love love love love Poe.

this is so incredibly cringe so far

"Every life is its own story-
not without share of glory,
and not without a share of grief.
I lived like a hero at seventeen.
At nineteen, I die like a thief.

what the hell
this is unironically heartbreaking

dinah run-

"Elain was like a dog, loyal to
whatever master kept her fed and in comfort."

PFFFTT

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taking one for the team

Listening to the audiobook- and despite that, how is it that Hutchinson's writing gets me every single time? The perfect mix of sarcastic, philosophical, and pessimistic.

im sorry, i can't do it

I have about 10% recollection of this series, so let's see how it goes.