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Abundance liberals WISH annular fusion was real

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???

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

“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”

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