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in the sun and in the rain
and in the day and in the night
pain is a flower
pain is flowers
blooming all the time.

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Started on 15 June 2008.
It’s nice to be reading more these days.
Unfortunately Philip K. Dick’s style isn’t sitting as well with me this time as it did with Do Androids Dream…, but I’ll keep plowing through it and see if I can find myself more engaged with the novel by the time I get to [...]

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Finished on 15 June 2008.
While it’s certainly easy to see why this would be considered such an important book, I didn’t get much out of it. It was fairly uneven and quite repetitive, and at times it felt pedantic. It was a bit of a slog in parts, but the crushing, nihilistic ending [...]

Translated by William Weaver from the Italian Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore.
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Read sometime in May 2008.
It was enjoyable to follow Italo Calvino in his second-person, literary-centric adventures, and it would be difficult to say whether I liked more his frame story, or the individual story fragments that the book is stitched together from. [...]