Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
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Read between June 17 - June 30, 2019
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They went on to perform sexual intercourse on the big pile of T-shirts on the rug. These could be grabbed in bunches and wadded up and jammed under body parts to facilitate various positions.
Nick
Oh yeah. Super hot. And followed by a scene where he has to wash all those funky T-shirts.
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Maeve: Corvallis’s girlfriend.
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I assumed this was a joke at first, but no, apparently having sex once has made them a couple.
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millions of social media users who were dumb
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Neal Stephenson has become kind of a dick.
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“Epiphanic Identity” had not been thrown in just to make the acronym work. The words had particular meanings.
Nick
Because god forbid you not know just how clever the author is.
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Solly had enough pull to set himself up with an interdisciplinary gig, endowment funded, not tied to any one department.
Nick
I'm glad no one in this book has to worry about money.
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streetscape. Having access to a basically infinite amount of money,
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Fuck these people.
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People who lacked the means to pay for such policies could buy into the system in other ways, for example by serving in the workforce of security guards, maintenance staff, and construction workers.
Nick
How nice that there's room for us serfs, too.