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A day or so away from the halfway point.

Reached the mark where I abandoned the book five years ago. But what's this? We have an episode of religious mania that feels like it's right out of Finnegans Wake with almost the same dense writing and...how is this cricket? making me read Finnegans Wake twice... Bring it on, difficulty mongers...

There's a character in this who looks like Hemingway, but he's not. So, I guess this gets placed on the "hemingway ubiquitous cameos" tag.

Rolling up close to the mark where I abandoned the book five years ago. Momentum far better this time.

Whatever alleged difficulty this novel purportedly presents has been dissolved by a concurrent reading of Finnegans Wake. This is almost like reading the Little Red Hen by comparison at this point, lol.

End of Part One, the biggest section of the book. Champagne, anyone?