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We’ve got abt 80 pages to wrap this up and I’ve got no idea where it is going

Holy fucking shit plot twist that makes so much sense but I never saw coming

Currently reading an sober Irishman’s recount of his first solid shit after getting sober. Literally how do things like this come out of one’s head..

There is political intrigue now! This was looming in the back but the world building is quite interesting.

Literally every page I’m gobsmacked by how prophetic DFW was

So far OBSESSED. Been shouting from the rooftops that the future of literature is actually what is UNSAID and DFW is a master at letting us come to assumptions by hanging certain scenes together. Enjoying very much.

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 😰