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Increasingly enjoyable. Chuckled twice believe it or not!! Don't think I've ever read a book where chapter 1 only starts on page 125. Bracing myself for this upcoming section on "the commodity" as word on the street is it's the dryest of them all.... Stay tuned
— Feb 11, 2024 06:45AM
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malou
is on page 388 of 1152
Still going at this in tiny little chunks - have nearly given up so many times, but he has finally gotten into talking about class struggle! "Yay" (to quote Harvey talking about Chapter 10)
— Jan 21, 2025 08:19AM
malou
is on page 320 of 1152
Sometimes it suddenly feels like something CLICKS in a satisfying way but most most of the time this really feels like homework I'd rather not be doing. I feel increasingly certain there is no way we'll finish before 2025. Still, I feel a commitment to the project??? Enlightenment awaits. 2/3s to go
— Jun 15, 2024 12:48PM
malou
is on page 178 of 1152
"Let us finally imagine, for a change, [..] the means of production held in common"
(Requiring some serious close reading to grasp anything at all - easily easily taking me an hour for every 10 pages - but it's increasingly satisfying! Excited to keep peeling layers off this onion, to use a Harvey phrase)
— Mar 03, 2024 12:20PM
(Requiring some serious close reading to grasp anything at all - easily easily taking me an hour for every 10 pages - but it's increasingly satisfying! Excited to keep peeling layers off this onion, to use a Harvey phrase)
malou
is on page 33 of 1152
Still v much in the intro. Sort of feel like I'm reading a driving manual without even knowing what a car is??? Trusting that all will make sense in due time
— Jan 23, 2024 10:50AM
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Feb 13, 2024 11:25AM
what were the laugh lines?
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thanks for reminding me to show rather than tell, paul! here goes: a footnote where marx says: "the mealy-mouthed babblers of German vulgar economic grumbled about the style of my book. no one can feel the literary shortcomings of Capital more strongly than I myself"
and the preface to the french edition where he responds to someone's suggestion to publish the thing in a series instead of as a big big book. he says it's not an option because the french won't have the patience to wait. he then says "there is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits"
do either seem funny to you???
