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camwynWill continue reading The Most Important Fish In The Sea, but god, it's depressing to see "$EnvironmentalProblem is happening? It is TOTALLY part of a natural cycle and has NOTHING to do with human overexploitation of resources! Totally natural cycle!" in arguments from the late 1800s. I think this book is best dealt with one chapter at a time, interspersed with other things for maintaining balance, something like how I read Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth back in college and immediately had to turn around and read Calvin and Hobbes for a while to put my brain back on track.
on that note I have started Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, largely because I have a vague recollection of a Tumblr post saying that Kipling may have been the spiritual godfather of all English imperialist literature but the book in question contained a wider array of ethnicities among the characters than many modern day novels bother to put together. (Or something to that effect. I know the post took the form of "What would you say about a novel that had the following characters" and that at least one of the characters in question was a Viking. It's been years since I tumblrd for any reason other than trying to find my Blood And SAN Points For My Lord Yog-Sothoth tags.)
on that note I have started Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, largely because I have a vague recollection of a Tumblr post saying that Kipling may have been the spiritual godfather of all English imperialist literature but the book in question contained a wider array of ethnicities among the characters than many modern day novels bother to put together. (Or something to that effect. I know the post took the form of "What would you say about a novel that had the following characters" and that at least one of the characters in question was a Viking. It's been years since I tumblrd for any reason other than trying to find my Blood And SAN Points For My Lord Yog-Sothoth tags.)
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