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Leninism: It’s like, historically contingent or whatever

Calvino-esque in the best way it can be. Crazy to read the part about the refuge to Heybeliada while on the beach only a few kilometers away from Heybeliada! Synchronicities once again

You’d think it’d be a little on the nose to give a general in a US imperial war the name Westmoreland, but then you wouldn’t really understand that you’re living in Nixonland. #AnecdotesfromNixonland

On page 784 of Ducks, Newburyport, the narrator says: “goon,” with no other context

There’s really something about the encyclopedic novel form that drives beauty and inspiration in me

Really laughed a lot at the 9/11 part and some other parts

I already know this one’s destined for the personal canon

I cannot help myself. Anyways thank you Mr. Kohei Saito I am already 100% on board with your theses even without having read your evidence for them yet.

So many mysteries to dig into….
Book-clubbing this

Obsessed