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Why is every chapter titled like a midwest emo song?

The Ballad for GoFundMe Jeff
Avoid Getting Liver Cancer if You Can
If You Can't Find a Broom, Try a Jaguar
How to Process Rage: An Instruction... Maybe an Example... Oh, Never Mind
Choosing the Best Song to Play at a Mass Drowning

"The only reason anyone writes stories is so they can understand the past and get ready for some future mortality; that’s why all the verbs in stories have -ed endings, Keith my good man, even the ones that sell millions of paperbacks. The only two useful artforms are religion and stories."

Synesius on his deathbed writing increasingly passive aggressive letters to Hypatia because she wouldn't reply to him was the original inspiration for Eminem's "Stan". Subscribe for more Hypatia facts

Hot take: Stephen King kinda rocks

Part II

"It was at some kind of trans thanksgiving thing. Everyone who's lonely goes into a room and is lonely together. You bring the worst vegan dish you can imagine and talk to people sadder than death."

Book Three

Book Two

Going though someone else paraphrasing and summary of Euclid's Elements feels like reading the wikipedia synopsis of LotR

Osserman writing about potential application of hyperbolic geometry to solve Fermat's last theorem in the mid 90s... all while Wiles was actually solving it... with elliptical geometry... in the mid 90s >foot in mouth. lmfao this book fucking rocks

Home stretch

"Oh how queer! I feel so gay holding a fag. Long live the queen" - some Victorian lesbian, probably

Old books are a time capsule. We used to say "Bill Gates" as an [insert really rich guy name here] and it was totally fine and normal

By the time I finish this, the human genome will have sufficiently evolved to make most of this whole book irrelevant

2450 year old dick jokes hit different

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Maybe it's cause I've been reading dry depressing lit for so long, but this is the most fun I've had with a novel in a long time

If this book sucks, I'm cancelling the rest of Pride Month