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[epilogue]

Burned through 60 pages with coffee and loving it so far. A different kind of Modiano novel than I've been used to, in some ways.

Interesting. How so?

It's almost entirely driven by this manic voice as it moves in and out of these brief scenes--it's a very different feel than the slow, wistful memories of something like Suspended Sentences

Gotcha. Sounds super interesting. I'm excited to check it out.

[epilogue]

Hurricane Season is great.

Up for some tamales?

wat

[Mickey]

Hurricane Season is great.

Up for some tamales?

wat

I think it's in the third or fourth chapter.

[epilogue]

Hurricane Season is great.

Up for some tamales?

wat

I think it's in the third or fourth chapter.

I legit have zero recollection of tamales.

[Mickey]

Burned through 60 pages with coffee and loving it so far. A different kind of Modiano novel than I've been used to, in some ways.

Interesting. How so?

It's almost entirely driven by this manic voice as it moves in and out of these brief scenes--it's a very different feel than the slow, wistful memories of something like Suspended Sentences

Gotcha. Sounds super interesting. I'm excited to check it out.

Oh I assumed you had read it. Yeah, it's a trip. The back copy describes the entire trilogy as "angry" and at least so far, that fits.

[Mickey]

Hurricane Season is great.

Up for some tamales?

wat

I think it's in the third or fourth chapter.

I legit have zero recollection of tamales.

Oh well they have people in them.

[epilogue]

Burned through 60 pages with coffee and loving it so far. A different kind of Modiano novel than I've been used to, in some ways.

Interesting. How so?

It's almost entirely driven by this manic voice as it moves in and out of these brief scenes--it's a very different feel than the slow, wistful memories of something like Suspended Sentences

Gotcha. Sounds super interesting. I'm excited to check it out.

Oh I assumed you had read it. Yeah, it's a trip. The back copy describes the entire trilogy as "angry" and at least so far, that fits.

I've only read Paris Nocturne and The Black Notebook by Modiano. But I like both and have been trying to figure out where to go next.

[epilogue]

Hurricane Season is great.

Up for some tamales?

wat

I think it's in the third or fourth chapter.

I legit have zero recollection of tamales.

Oh well they have people in them.

oh oh oh oh oh right.

That's so funny. A detail like that would really stick out and be a defining detail in almost any other book. In this it just flows over you and you're on to the next thing. It's such a minor and insignificant detail, a wispy rumor, and nowhere near as awful as most of what happens.

[epilogue]

I'm going to start On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous tomorrow.

[Mickey]

Don't

[Mickey]

Hurricane Season is great.

Up for some tamales?

wat

I think it's in the third or fourth chapter.

I legit have zero recollection of tamales.

Oh well they have people in them.

oh oh oh oh oh right.

That's so funny. A detail like that would really stick out and be a defining detail in almost any other book. In this it just flows over you and you're on to the next thing. It's such a minor and insignificant detail, a wispy rumor, and nowhere near as awful as most of what happens.

Interesting, for me that was by far the most stomach-churning detail outside of the....entire Norma chapter

[Mickey]

Burned through 60 pages with coffee and loving it so far. A different kind of Modiano novel than I've been used to, in some ways.

Interesting. How so?

It's almost entirely driven by this manic voice as it moves in and out of these brief scenes--it's a very different feel than the slow, wistful memories of something like Suspended Sentences

Gotcha. Sounds super interesting. I'm excited to check it out.

Oh I assumed you had read it. Yeah, it's a trip. The back copy describes the entire trilogy as "angry" and at least so far, that fits.

I've only read Paris Nocturne and The Black Notebook by Modiano. But I like both and have been trying to figure out where to go next.

I highly recommend Suspended Sentences, I loved that book.

[epilogue]

Burned through 60 pages with coffee and loving it so far. A different kind of Modiano novel than I've been used to, in some ways.

Interesting. How so?

It's almost entirely driven by this manic voice as it moves in and out of these brief scenes--it's a very different feel than the slow, wistful memories of something like Suspended Sentences

Gotcha. Sounds super interesting. I'm excited to check it out.

Oh I assumed you had read it. Yeah, it's a trip. The back copy describes the entire trilogy as "angry" and at least so far, that fits.

I've only read Paris Nocturne and The Black Notebook by Modiano. But I like both and have been trying to figure out where to go next.

I highly recommend Suspended Sentences, I loved that book.

I'll do that one next then.

[epilogue]

Hurricane Season is great.

Up for some tamales?

wat

I think it's in the third or fourth chapter.

I legit have zero recollection of tamales.

Oh well they have people in them.

oh oh oh oh oh right.

That's so funny. A detail like that would really stick out and be a defining detail in almost any other book. In this it just flows over you and you're on to the next thing. It's such a minor and insignificant detail, a wispy rumor, and nowhere near as awful as most of what happens.

Interesting, for me that was by far the most stomach-churning detail outside of the....entire Norma chapter

I think it's the whole unreliable narrator thing, coupled with the larger themes surrounding toxic masculinity and machismo, that made that part (the tamales) feel like a lie or a wild rumor, something that could be dismissed as untrue. Whereas most of the rest of the horrid shit that happens is harder to dismiss because even though no POV is particularly reliable, they overlap and expand on each other in ways that made me believe them.

It's dogs and cats in the tamales, not people. Or whatever. But the Norma stuff... it can't be dismissed. Or I couldn't dismiss any of it or rationalize any of it.

[epilogue]

Don't

Do you dislike it because you read it or on principle?

[Mickey]

Yeah, totally, I get that. But on a pedantic note, both Munra and Yesenia note that the tamales might have girl in them.

[Mickey]

Don't

Do you dislike it because you read it or on principle?

I've not read it, but I know Ocean's other work (bleh) and have it on good authority that it sucks ass.

[epilogue]

Yeah, totally, I get that. But on a pedantic note, both Munra and Yesenia note that the tamales might have girl in them.

True. But isn't that just more macho sexism? Either way...

I love art. I love how different people react to and participate in a given piece of art. It's so fucking cool that we each experience these details, colors and contours differently.

I remember B was really affected by a detail in the latest Chuck Palahnuik book. And it didn't faze me at all. Like the tamales, I read over it and didn't "feel" the scene the same way he did. I love how we all bring our biases and experiences to this shit.

[epilogue]

Don't

Do you dislike it because you read it or on principle?

I've not read it, but I know Ocean's other work (bleh) and have it on good authority that it sucks ass.

I don't think I've read anything by Ocean Vuong?

Was he in your class?

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