I've had such a good run these past couple of months!
Firstly, I went to Turkey (!!!) and Istanbul, oh my god, is where it's AT.
Otherwise, the books I've been reading! SO good. After SUCH a long time.
I am Radar, which I am convinced is amazing:
"We can only witness the witnessing!"
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The Sandglass by Romesh Gunasekara, which is as complex and lyrical a murder mystery as I've read:
"My father... would've said that arrack has been extremely lucrative for a hundred years, so someone must be (interested in it). It was the only route to real capital accumulation: cheap to produce, and a permanently addicted market. Why do you think the British introduced these taverns? It's like the opium dens."
or even:
"...selling the paradise experience between death camps and suicide bombers to tourists who didn't care."
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Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut:
"Kilgore Trout once wrote a story called "This Means You". It was set in the Hawaiian Islands, the place where the lucky winners of Dwayne Hoover's contest in Midland City were supposed to go. Every bit of land on the islands was owned by only about 40 people, and, in the story, Trout had those people decide to exercise their property rights in full. They put up no tresspassing boards on everything.
This created terrible problems for the million other people on the islands. The law of gravity required that they stick somewhere on the surface. Either that, or they could go out into the water and bob offshore.
But then the Federal Government came through with an emergency program. It gave a big balloon full of helium to every man, woman and child who didn't own property."
(pp. 73; Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut.)
Firstly, I went to Turkey (!!!) and Istanbul, oh my god, is where it's AT.
Otherwise, the books I've been reading! SO good. After SUCH a long time.
I am Radar, which I am convinced is amazing:
"We can only witness the witnessing!"
**
The Sandglass by Romesh Gunasekara, which is as complex and lyrical a murder mystery as I've read:
"My father... would've said that arrack has been extremely lucrative for a hundred years, so someone must be (interested in it). It was the only route to real capital accumulation: cheap to produce, and a permanently addicted market. Why do you think the British introduced these taverns? It's like the opium dens."
or even:
"...selling the paradise experience between death camps and suicide bombers to tourists who didn't care."
**
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut:
"Kilgore Trout once wrote a story called "This Means You". It was set in the Hawaiian Islands, the place where the lucky winners of Dwayne Hoover's contest in Midland City were supposed to go. Every bit of land on the islands was owned by only about 40 people, and, in the story, Trout had those people decide to exercise their property rights in full. They put up no tresspassing boards on everything.
This created terrible problems for the million other people on the islands. The law of gravity required that they stick somewhere on the surface. Either that, or they could go out into the water and bob offshore.
But then the Federal Government came through with an emergency program. It gave a big balloon full of helium to every man, woman and child who didn't own property."
(pp. 73; Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut.)
