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moss
is 18% done
this book. is a lot. it’s a lot. the vocabulary and the structure and the complexity literary-technique-wise is fabulous and amazing and superb but the subject matter. it’s like reading Crime and Punishment and being uncomfortable at how well it talks about what it talks about. and of course that too is part of the point. AUGH
— Oct 28, 2026 04:21PM
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moss
is 4% done
this book’s structure just keeps making me want to reread Moby Dick instead of seeing whatever fresh horrors this book is gonna serve up till the bitter end, BUT WE SHALL PERSIST. Ishmael POV I’m coming for you (you sit on my desk as we speak) but not quite yet. You’ll be my reward for the horrors of third person examination of human atrocities and the webs woven between and among their perpetration
— Oct 26, 2026 11:41PM
moss
is 2% done
This feels so much like Moby Dick’s opening for some reason. Now I really want to read Moby Dick again. wait for me, Ishmael
— Oct 19, 2026 03:32PM