Writer of Wrongs / Technologist & technology cynic / Dr (not necessarily the useful kind) / Artist / also ja5on@mastodon.social @jasonjcrouch for tweets / he|him
“But he read the book the way the fertilizer man reads reports; he did not read it as a book. I, for example, would like to read Fitzgerald’s ‘Tender Is the Night’ as slowly as possible. In fact, I would pay vast sums for anyone to teach me to read the books I love at a snail’s pace.”
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“But he read the book the way the fertilizer man reads reports; he did not read it as a book. I, for example, would like to read Fitzgerald’s ‘Tender Is the Night’ as slowly as possible. In fact, I would pay vast sums for anyone to teach me to read the books I love at a snail’s pace.”
Yea. I get about 1x Pratchett each month then have to wait ~ 2wks to finish it. It’s such an irritatingly low limit too. All contributes to the low level rage tho, so there’s that.
October 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Yea. I get about 1x Pratchett each month then have to wait ~ 2wks to finish it. It’s such an irritatingly low limit too. All contributes to the low level rage tho, so there’s that.