Computer Science Guy Loves read And Brazilian Coffee

      I did not accomplish as much reading as I would have liked to this year. I discovered the work of Jack Vance and Philip Jose Farmer as well as other Hugo-winning writers (from a selection, "The Hugo Winners Vol. 2") and I also finished Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. I enjoyed Dead Souls but it was very remote from my innate interests. It was a thorough and articulate book, a very cheerful one. The emphasis is on comedy and human variation and folly. Everyone in the book is an idiot but Gogol does not make some dramatic point on it. Even in the way Chichikov travels the countryside and observes Russia passing by him, falling asleep and waking up in new environments, makes the landscape feel small and trekkable and familiar. I will have to read his other short stories and see if he can maintain this quality without the need for a Chichikov, because in the fragmented Volume 2 of Dead Souls he sort of flanderizes Chichikov, emphasizing his sycophantic qualities.

Repressed Homosexuality Expressed Thru Tribal Dance

     What is the point of reading if all knowledge is instant and by request? Why do I not just skip straight to optimizing for money?

The World is a Devil's Belly

     Sometimes when i am in bed I can only see visions inspired by the raw qualia of plumbless dread. Other times the existence of this feeling and my transient ability to overcome it inspires me to do the work of 3 men in one day. I wish I had stable perception.