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“Exodus no more reduced anti-Semitism than tacos clarify the border crisis.” 🤣

damn he’s so deft. what Heller’s getting at is right out in the open but he doesn’t preach

gee that was some dramatically-convenient senseless violence!

I was gonna go easy on it because of how kind and nice and wistful it is, but this… it’d be like if The Andy Griffith Show ended with Opie and Gomer being run over by a truck. for the love of a real editor!

wow Chuck clearly does not understand — and perhaps has never even encountered — a cohesively religious worldview

Societal ills addressed so far:

• criminal justice reform
• domestic violence
• screentime
• immigration
• homelessness
• mental illness

(might've missed one or two, still 100+ pages to go)

“Who would have guessed that the crusty old war veteran was as conversant about Narnia and Terabithia as he was about Tet and Saigon?”

rhetorical devices aside? this reader would have. 193 pages in, this is not a surprising development. also: he owns a bookstore and just spent the better part of a recent chapter revealing himself to be a softie. That was also not a surprise.

withholding for dramatic effect

“Accountants aren’t supposed to cry.” 🙄