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Sanjana Shah is on page 550 of 1079

Things I am enjoying: recursive sentence construction (Hal despised the way he always reacted, pretending to pretend his reluctance to eat her supper was a pretense)

Things I am not enjoying: the animal abuse. WHY is there so much graphic animal abuse???

— Mar 24, 2026 09:50PM

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Abundance liberals WISH annular fusion was real

— Jun 19, 2026 04:24PM

Sanjana Shah is on page 442 of 1079

There are times where DFW puts so much effort into drawing out and detailing peoples’ pain and suffering in a way that feels deeply empathetic. And then there are times where it feels like he is playing truly awful suffering just for laughs in a way that feels kind of gross (Raquel Welch, Clipperton). And the fact that he does both these things alongside one another is like baffling to me

— Feb 17, 2026 09:41PM

Sanjana Shah is on page 320 of 1079

“Time began to pass with sharp edges, its passage in the dark or dim-lit stall was like time was being carried by a procession of ants, a gleaming red martial column of those militaristic red Southern-US ants that build hideous tall boiling hills; and each vile gleaming ant wanted a minuscule little portion of Poor Tony’s flesh in compensation as it helped bear time slowly forward”

— Jan 26, 2026 08:37PM

Sanjana Shah is on page 295 of 1079

— Jan 20, 2026 08:58PM

Sanjana Shah is on page 221 of 1079

I am owning it (and holding myself accountable to my page count targets)

— Jan 13, 2026 09:13PM