This book is 110 page long existential crisis- in a good way! I think about it once a week, and has become my Roman Empire.
Aug 9, 2024
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This is 108 pages so like, reading slump breaker of chains. Anyway, this is great to read at the same time as someone else because itās really fun to talk about all the hypotheticals that it leads to. My non-reader boyfriend read it in an hour and a half.
Click the link to take you to an online version of the library of babel (youāll see.) Enjoy the existential crisis as you realize everything thatās been said or ever will be said has been written already.
Heās also making his own version of hell in video game format in the form of a rhythm game if anyone is interested in that after š
Jan 26, 2024
This world is a life sentence. Iām in a state of constant, low grade agitation. Crust gathered around my eyelids like dead weeds in the summer sun. Iām sitting in the line for the COSTCO gasoline station in Van Nuys, CA as I type this. Itās hot and stifling and the malformed waddler phenotype directly in front of me canāt for the life of her get her COSTCO card to read at the scanner. Iām seething, seething in my non-air conditioned 2005 Toyota Solara. It occurs to me that when the government decides to suspend the constitution & institute mass incarcerations, they wonāt even need to erect FEMA camps. Iām thinking forced relocation of insurgent population to COSTCOās around the country. it wonāt even be forced. Weāll all just move in & relish the the opportunity to finally, holistically Live in Bulkā¢ļø . In this moment, when being a total misanthrope comes as easily, as urgently as reaching for the glass of water on the floor next to the mattress (also on the floor), I canāt help but think to myself āthe narrator from my year of rest & relaxation is literally meā.
Fun, easy breezy read. Made me lol a couple of times. Middle part drags a bit, but the endingās brilliant. late to the party on this one, but glad I finally got around to it
Apr 16, 2024
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I'm rec-ing this book because it kind of kicked off my re-emergence into reading. Tyler rec'd it to me several years ago, and because it was a small commitment of ~300ish pages, I figured why not and gave it a shot. Alas, Babylon was written in the '50s, at the height of the Cold War, when the fear of an apocalyptic war was everywhere. You read about a small Florida town's adjustment to the end times & how they come together to survive. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, and easily powered through it in a couple days, even when I read it as my first book in years.
Feb 18, 2021
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Thereās just something really energizing knowing that me, Megan Fox, and the Late Elizabeth II share something moderately specific.
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Mar 4, 2025
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You donāt need to suffer to prove that youāre a good person. You donāt have to stay with the job that makes you question yourself and you donāt have to keep dating that person youāre not quite clicking with. If something feels off then it probably is. Iām not advocating for immediately abandoning your responsibilities and throwing caution to the wind; but in our hearts we know when something is working and when it isnāt.
That thing called intuition is your soul, and you can trust it.
Dec 31, 2024
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Iām tired of jumping through hoops and reframing my mounting dread everyday as āan opportunity to make a changeā. Iām tired of thinking that only if I tried harder, or was better or did something different that I would have a better outcome. At what point do you stop trying to jam the same puzzle piece in the same spot and say,
āHmm maybe this doesnāt fit!ā
Am I quitting trying to be an ever optimizing and improving version of myself? Maybe. OR have I successfully gotten what I wanted out of this experience and can peacefully move on without remorse?
I think in 2025 Iām going to start choosing the latter.
Dec 18, 2024