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taking a break from this book for a while too heavy at this point in my life

Theoretically layered, where meaning isn’t spoon-fed but forced through interpretive labour. I'm actively engaged in constructing meaning from chaos that at first seems unnecessarily rambunctious; however, I find myself less engaged where other parts lack this complexity. The work is a practice in Bolaño’s idea that without this chaos, life becomes reduced to mere economic and functional terms.

Brilliantly organised chaos, invested and not sure why. Theme so far - epistemic relativism, phenomenology, existentialism. Will say, 60pgs in- am becoming increasingly aware of the risk to my own sanity as I become more deeply situated within the characters shifting consciousness - one that I am knowingly and willingly taking I guess