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“I think if you live long enough, you become a migrant from another timeline. There’s the world you learn to navigate as you enter adulthood, and then that world slips away from you by degrees, and after a while there’s nothing left of it, but you’re still here.”
Exit Party. Emily St. John Mandel.
'There’s so much you have to ignore to live peacefully in a place like this.'
Exit Party. Emily St. John Mandel.
There should be a Nobel Prize in Complex World-building and Structurally Sound Plot Construction and it should be given to Emily St. John Mandel immediately. Exit Party is gobsmackingly well done. I rushed to return my library edition the second I finished it because there were 9 people in the queue and I want to pass on the pleasure without delay.
As a by the bye, this is the first time I’ve heard this new-normal concluding sentence in the audiobook wild:
“Please note that no part of this audiobook may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artifical intelligence technologies or systems."
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