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I can tell how the Dominic Sessa biopic is going to go beat-for-beat…

Ok finished the second essay. Final (and titular) essay is about a cruise he went on…..? Pause.

ugh his mind. I feel like when I read DFW it’s like drinking from a firehose. Like slow down buddy I want to catch everything.

Finally finished the TV essay. Man that bad boy was DENSE

Currently reading his essay on TV. Dude is scary prophetic and I wish I could know what he’d think about social media.

reading via audiobook, really hard to focus bc i was on quite noisy public transpo, fascinating first essay abt Lorde (not that kind, i mean the author) in Russia right around the start of perestroika

flying thru this! absolutely electric essay about David Wojnarowicz, who took the photo that is on the front of this book

AHHHH gotta read most of it today

desperately trying to finish this before my book club meeting next week 😰

the exposition is really killing me, like no I do not need constant reminders of basic worldbuilding or plot devices! yes I get you have hyper empathy, yes I get you miss your baby. no need to belabor the point

Crazy similarities like I swear she saw the future

yo this is crazy the evil Christian nationalist president’s slogan is “Help us to make America great again.” and this was published in 1998 wtfffff 🤯

was returned to the library while i was abt halfway thru… will pick up soon

crazy to think somebody can be connected to their family all the way back to like 1899, like to know your family and their role in your country so well is kind of incredible

“caretaking is our default mode it’s always a lie that convinces us to act or believe otherwise. always.”

“caretaking is our default mode and it’s always a lie that convinces us to act or believe otherwise. always.”