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So far, this is mostly just a rehash of Mort.

WTF is up with the paper knife? Why does he need to keep cutting his book? Is this something that only makes sense to people who lived through the 70s?

Finished with the short stories. Just the poetry, essays, and memoirs remaining.

I might actually finish this book within a few years.

> Where does the perceived special nature of the moment ‘now’ come from, and where do we get that dynamical sense of the flow of time? This
is a big unsolved mystery, and might remain that way for all time.

I don't see how, at least after granting that causality is a thing and relativity preserves it. One brain state leads to another, giving us working memory, and 'now' is no more mysterious than 'here'.

Real physics is such janky bullshit, it sounds like bad sci-fi. "There's a cosmic speed limit, and time dilates as objects approach it, but all the math works out in the end because length contracts too."

122/128 books read for the 2024 challenge. I'm going to call that a good effort, especially after counting partial progress on several books, and try not to set the bar too high again in 2025.