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Had a sinking feeling as I struggled through one of the grosser and more heavily-foreshadowed affairs in literary history, and began to sense why many of my friends have rated this poorly. But part II also ended with a pretty tense shark-oriented set-piece, and now I'm (tentatively) back on board.
"You know what Australians call great white sharks?"
"No, what?"
"White death."
"You had to tell me, didn't you?"

— Aug 12, 2025 07:50AM

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These were not Aquarians. They uttered none of the platitudes of peace or pollution, of justice or revolt. Privilege had been bred into them with genetic certainty. They had been conditioned to believe (or if not to believe, to sense) that the world was really quite irrelevant to them. And they were right.

— Aug 09, 2025 03:02PM