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How is this book still going.

Inch-thick porterhouse of a book smothered in brutality mushroom sauce with a heaping side dish of insanely assiduous historical research.

Reminds me that it's been a while since I heard someone use the word "flaneur" unironically.

The father was right, I am a knife person. Knife-loving blood circulates within me. There is a symbol for infinity, a line that describes a sideways figure eight. X marks the spot in the center. X marks the spot of recirculation. That is where you should plunge the knife to stop the blood of time past from infecting the blood of time future.

It's a good kind of cringing.

Well, looking forward to having these nightmares tonight.

Damn, Russo, where you going with this?

Whew. Like eating a seven-course meal made of buildings and newspapers.

So fucking good.

So much Pennsylvania. So many faces described as "nut" or "nut-brown". So much superfluous visual description. So much at peace with my own male gaze.

Finally getting to this. Wonder if there's any written record of Updike expressing doubt in his writing ability?

Meh.

Ahahahaha holy fucking shit this book is so fun. I wish I wasn't working right now. I just want to go Takeru Kobayashi on this fucking book.