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Empathy is what you feel; not what the object of your empathy feels

That's a particularly bad one. I dont know if you win but you're up there for sure

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Thanks for sharing.

When breaking things down causes more overwhelm than it solves, have you found any strategy that does help?

Thanks for the memories! "Af-af-after-noon-delite!"

Most people with ADHD also experience emotion regulation issues, so it is easy for them to also be diagnosed with anxiety disorders

Its been years so I dont specifically recall. My guess is that it is the voice of a sort of omniscient narrator. It does seem to be a stand-in for Pynchon's perspective to some extent. It's such an exuberant novel. There is definitely a sense I recall that this (at the time) young man was stretching to the limit of his prodigious ability and wanted to show that ability off.

They're similarly complex for sure. Even encyclopedic.

It's one of the more difficult books to get through frankly but it is rewarding. The thing to appreciate when attempting it is that mid-30s Pynchon was inventing his own English grammar. Some sentences are a full page long and it will challenge your memory. So the best approach I think is to just let it wash over you. After a while your mind adapts. You'll miss a ton the first time through and that is OK. I think I had to start it three times before I eventually got through it and I was younger then. I have reread it a few times since, once with a companion book that annotated each chapter and offered commentary on the book's structure which is actually impressively plotted. But don't let it intimidate. Just let it wash over you and enjoy the funny parts. There are a lot of funny parts. The audiobook route sounds less fatiguing. Fickt nicht mit dem Raketemensch!

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