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A Swim in a Pond in The Rain

I already adore Saunders’ short stories, but his recent book that delicately outlines the mechanics and flow-states of both storytelling and story-reading often leaves me in a state of deep, sublime appreciation of life itself – melodramatic, I know, but I’m serious. It’s one of those books where I’ve basically transcribed the entire thing into my notes because every page is such a crystal clear revelation.

@sam-rolfes

Jul 19, 2023

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GOOD OLD NEON—DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

“The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less impressive or attractive you felt inside — you were a fraud. And the more of a fraud you felt like, the harder you tried to convey an impressive or likable image of yourself so that other people wouldn't find out what a hollow, fraudulent person you really were … The fraud part of me was always there, just as the puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits. For a while I thought that possibly one or the other of my biological parents had been frauds or had carried some type of fraud gene or something and that I had inherited it, but that was a dead end, there was no way to know. And even if I did, what difference would it make? I was still a fraud, it was still my own unhappiness that I had to deal with … The fact is that we're all lonely, of course. Everyone knows this, it's almost a cliché. So yet another layer of my essential fraudulence is that I pretended to myself that my loneliness was special, that it was uniquely my fault because I was somehow especially fraudulent and hollow. It's not special at all, we've all got it. In spades.“

@taterhole

2d ago

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Andrew solomon

The Noonday Demon is the best nonfiction read on depression. He is brilliant and the book worth the 900 or so pages.

@halidgka

Feb 7, 2024

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Do not look at a clock…

… when you wake up in the middle of the night to pee or whatever. The stress of “HOW MUCH TIME TILL YOUR ALARM GOES OFF” will inevitably make it harder to fall back asleep. Maybe you have 2 hours, maybe you have fifteen minutes. Let the mystery be. You’ll zonk out quicker, and when you wake up, you probably won’t know how long you slept for anyway.

@l_matthews9

Nov 15, 2024

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Last song on the New Christopher Owens Record

"Do You Need a Friend" ... what a heartbreaker. Jesus. "If you really want to know..."

@l_matthews9

Nov 14, 2024

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New again — saerie

Some Lenker vibes.…Trains, vistas, cows, broken promises, etc 🤘🏼

@l_matthews9

Nov 15, 2024