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Disappointing to hear Sapolsky call dopamine and serotonin imbalance 'the two leading theories of depression'. Metastudies don't find any evidence for these hypotheses, and it's frustrating how many experts continue to repeat the claim.

Mr Pynchon your made-up song has an anachronistic mention of drug brownies YOU TWIT. Nice to get a point on you after conceding so many details of chemical synthesis and rocket parts.

"But who will be the Malaparte of the meme wars, today’s chronicler of ends of eras? On what shared facts will our future history be based? Where will we even begin?"

It’s been a whole month let’s read it again

I would like some people who liked each other in these books

Second book in a row that starts immediately with Moby Dick, and this one is clearly also full of sad lesbians going for the combo punch to knock out my soul

Really disappointed by the first novelette, which felt like poorly recycled Viriconium—including its claustrophobic male perspective. The undermining of its own sexism seems to be its major goal, but with a man taking up all the emotional and narrative space, I’m not interested in the attempt. Hope the others are better!

First page we got Moby Dick, we got Russians, back cover has Charnas comparing this to Brothers Karamazov uhoh my expectations are making a squishy hole in my brain and asking the book to fit in it good

“But why have two names at a time?”
…
“You change your name any time you want to?”
“If you do it too often, nobody remembers your name… Sometimes youths do that the first years after naming.”

But Marge, what if a woman gets scrambled in time and all her names tangle together?
-Myles Uvrón Vivienne W [M/W/UV/V-namesign] Schaller

So all of chapter one is omniscient narrator exposition, god help us trapped between this deadly worldbuilding

"In view of our years of intimacy, I am deeply hurt that you should hesitate to die with me. Lest it prove to be a barrier to my salvation in the next life, I decided to include in this final testament all of the grudges against you that have accumulated in me since we first met."

Forget Romeo and Juliet, Jinnosuke is the pinnacle of teenage romance.

Marjorie cannot concentrate on keeping the goddamn universe together for five minutes without some dude getting in her way.

One must be patient when one’s ill six-year-old is beaten up by bullies every week, because he has to learn to adapt. 😬😬😬

I don’t think a beginner cryptic crossword should expect you to know that there’s a wine called Soave or a horse breed called Punch. 😭

Hey guys I think this book might be depressing

“I don’t understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.”

I love this eerie start. Gormenghast vibes.

"I followed the directions with the happy result—speaking for myself—that my life was preserved, and is still going on."

This book is charming me quickly

"To encounter an octopus is to be implicated in a question about being that engulfs you both."
—‘Such Flexible Intensity of Life’, Verlyn Klinkenborg

I want to move into Octopolis. Human life has been so unbearably stressful lately.

This audiobook said “skin flicks for yaks” and I’ve missed the next two minutes wondering what the heck that means