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The Theologians: It is eerie beyond expression that I have spent, like, two months coming up with a fantasy religion for my book, and out of of every story in human history, THIS is the one that came up with my idea first

The Immortals: Beautiful and transcendent. I would recommend these to anyone, but this one you HAVE to check out, even if it's not one of the big names. It uses the word "vertiginous" four or five times

The Sect of the Phoenix: Something cosmically funny about me, an asexual, being completely baffled as to what they're talking about here

Three Versions of Judas: I adore Borges's little niche of "here's an anecdote about a strange academic". Clever twist!

The Secret Miracle: I'm so glad that this book finally got back to me on Libby. Beautiful, powerful, mystical little story

Death and the Compass: This is real nemesis shit right here. Don't step to me unless you're willing to formulate a mystery so tantalizing that my inevitable attempt to unravel it will lead to my demise

Theme of the Traitor and the Hero: (cf. Lisa the Iconoclast)

The Shape of the Sword: Hell of an ending on this one! Goosebumps. I really dig the epistolary theme, it's a cool throwback to 18/19th century lit. Maybe Steven Universe discourse isn't the worst type of leftist infighting there is

The Library of Babel: I think that randomly generated text is bereft of meaning, even if it happens to accurately portray or predict past or future events. *smiling blankly as another $15,000,000,000,000,000 get invested into ChatGPT*

The Circular Ruins: Sorry if this is anti-intellectual, but I can't be arsed anymore over whether or not life is a dream. "Oh, but what if your entire existence is a simulation?" then I guess I have ~*simulated*~ student loans to pay back that I'm banking my ~*simulated*~ employer will cover once I get a ~*simulated*~ professorship position at a ~*simulated*~ college, damn