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Also there’s a polar bear fight scene."
And I was surrounded by books as a kid."
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There’s a passage in C.S.
Lewis’Out of the Silent Planetthat has stuck with me.
An academic is kidnapped and taken to Mars.
The aliens there are sentient otters and find us confusing.
One says, ‘When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing.
Now it is growing something as we remember it.
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But still we know very little about it.
The other is only the beginning of it.’
Also I re-read Pynchon’sCrying of Lot 49a few months ago, which is funny as hell."
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A book I wish I’d written
“Maybe Murakami’sWind-Up Bird Chronicles.
I loveThe Puttermesser Papers(speaking of books that made me laugh).”
“Some huge gaps: Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens [pictured], E.L. And then I went down an Atwood rabbit hole and devoured all theMaddAddambooks.”
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The piece I wrote that makes me cringe
“Every tweet is a mistake.”
I’m re-reading Agatha Christie’sAnd Then There Were Noneand a few other mystery standards as research for a project.
The Wind-Up-Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.Vintage
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