The Emperor of Gladness
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Started reading September 13, 2025
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Sony quickly
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BJ, aka Big Jean.
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Samuel Dalembert.” BJ lifted her head and brightened. “A center for the 76ers.”
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“You start at $7.15, just like
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“I’m an amateur wrestler on the local circuit. Well,
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“My daughter, Lina, is just like her father. Also a nerd. She loved Isaac Asimov. But
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Jonas never liked her much.
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The Brothers Karamazov. It was
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the book he and Noah were going to read together the summer before he died. This will
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How strange to feel something so close to mercy, whatever that was, and stranger still that it should be found in here of all places, at the end of a road of ruined houses by a toxic river. That among a pile of salvaged trash, he would come closest to all he ever wanted to be: a consciousness sitting under a lightbulb reading his days away, warm and alone, alone and yet, somehow, still somebody’s son.
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