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so bleak. if marquis de sade’s sexuality is one extreme end of a spectrum, Lawrence’s is the other

feel confident in saying: Sheila Heti has read and somewhat seriously engaged with Lacan at one point or another

everyone in this novel is so mean

such an apocalyptic first paragraph

goes down real easy

little john hawkes quote there. fun fact - Hawkes was Shields’ teacher (at Iowa i believe)

very strange little book

probably going to finish this in one sitting

not doing it for me but Adler is such a skilled stylist that it’s worth it

speedboat-lite so far

shopping cart motif

extremely easy to glaze over when he starts doing math but i will persevere

added this to my currently reading then immediately misplaced it. but we’re back

it is crazy how much of Marx’s analysis has just dissipated into mainstream general economic understanding. we take things for granted but at one point not too long ago saying something oh money represents to the commodity the latter’s price and it blew peoples minds

don’t think it’s entirely fair to say Henry David Thoreau “rejected the division of labour” since his mom did his laundry even as an adult man

this book is pulling off a rare feat of condescending to its subjects and it’s readers. despite what vollmann thinks i did actually know that Kazakhstan was a country before he enlightened me to that

high school redditor level interpretation of Marx’s religion is the opiate of the masses comment, if someone brings up this quote it is the first clue that that person has not actually read Marx

something that always makes me laugh when i revisit Marx is how large swaths of the population think everything he wrote is like a militant call to arms or that he’s responsible for the most pedantic kinds of idpol but then you read him and it’s 20 pages straight about how the scottish banks are handling the fact that silver is starting to cost as much as gold

going back in time to tell Marx that one day president Nixon is going to pull the USD off the gold standard

alright, done with the foreword lol

might make a nice companion to Vollmann’s Poor People

Vollmann’s footnotes definitely coming across with an air of “well actually..”

hmmm

it’s funny to be a guy who has written more than one book about a person on the outskirts of a city trying to get to the center of it

not sure what everyone’s complaining about with this one, Handke even gives you the key — “impatience is the death of existence”

i will single handedly raise the average score of all of Handke’s books on goodreads