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One of the most informative and trenchant books I’ve ever read.

Impossible to dismiss. Impossible to put down. Essential reading for most of us today.

“I feel the end at hand, and the beginning likewise, to every man his orbit, that’s obvious.”

“… I’m all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they, all of them, those that merge, those that part, those that never meet, and nothing else, yes, something else, that I’m something quite different, a quite different thing, a wordless thing in an empty space…”

“The scytheman will tell, it’s all one to him. But let us go back as planned, afterwards we’ll fall forward as projected.”

“Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.”

On page 300: “Then a little hell after my own heart, not too cruel, with a few nice damned to foist my groans on, something sighing off and on and the distant gleams of pity’s fires biding their hour to promote us to ashes.”

The Unnamable begins. The final novel in this masterful trilogy.