12 favorite books, currently

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  • STONER (John Williams, 1965)

  • THE BLACK DAHLIA (James Ellroy, 1995)

  • RED HARVEST (Dashiell Hammett, 1929)

  • WAR AND PEACE (Leo Tolstoy, 1869)

  • THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS (Ursula K Le Guin, 1969)

  • MIDDLEMARCH (George Eliot, 1872)

  • FRANKENSTEIN (Mary Shelley, 1818)

  • THE BODY ARTIST (Don DeLillo, 2001)

  • BLINDNESS (José Saramago, 1995)

  • SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (Ray Bradbury, 1962)

  • KINDRED (Octavia Butler, 1979)

  • THE MEMORY POLICE (Yoko Ogawa, 1994)

this would be a title if i could come up with one right now

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Inverse proportionality's vanishing act continues: whereas once fewer words in the Main Work meant more words here, they are – as with yesterday's more with more – few with few (though there are, as I let this flow, more here than on the main work so perhaps it's a return to SOP?)

What I can tell you is that Kirby has been demanding to sit in my lap – while I'm sitting in the office chair - all morning: growing up with The Morkie and The Jorkie, he's yet to understand how massive he is; three more months of velociraptor age-range that could last three years or his entire life. Whatever works: he is, utterly, Derbz.

Also: go read THE MEMORY POLICE now. It’s a fucking masterpiece.

Bivalent stabjab this afternoon; die COVID die.