Scratch-and-Sniff Reality and A Wider World

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:16:02 GMT

It's impossible to be jet-lagged from an hour-and-a-half flight that doesn't even result in changing time zones, but that's how I feel. It was a rough flight, and I ended up pretty sick by the end of it. I survived, but I still feel pretty "off."

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The Crying of Lot 49

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:19:58 GMT

Surely it's just that I've spent too long staring too hard at historical accounts of the situation framing the 1960s student protests, and, much like the main character of The Crying of Lot 49, I find myself in a state somewhere between fictionalizing real events in a state of near-paranoia and denying reality itself in favor of remaining a cynic. Surely this book isn't actually trying to tie together the concepts of the universal nature of the human spirit and progressive movements, casting the conservative ideal of America as some sort of corpse of a concept that never existed. It's easier to think that I'm misinterpreting this.

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makz survives the apocalypse

Scratch-and-Sniff Reality and A Wider World

The Crying of Lot 49