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Can't even sleep wasted, these days. Get up and have a smoke, that will help.
My booze was trashed like 3 hours ago. Got a pipe dream or two.
2nd half of this fucker kicks ass
My booze was trashed like 3 hours ago. Got a pipe dream or two.
2nd half of this fucker kicks ass
My imaginary pet goldfish is chiding me that March is International Epiphany Month. She's such a lunatic joker.
Bowl #3
Switching to Pineapple Express, expecting appetite over/under 74.5 minutes.
Don't mind me--these AI responses appear so beautiful within.
ex: best novel about a last man on earth and what loneliness does to his soul
AI Overview
Based on the criteria of a last man on Earth and the profound psychological impact of solitude on the soul, the best novel is widely considered to be
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.
Here are the top recommendations based on that specific, haunting theme:
1. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (1954)
2. The Last Man by Mary Shelley (1826)
3. The Dog Stars by Peter Heller (2012)
4. Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (1949)
Summary Recommendation
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I could do without the vampires, but thinking about the Matheson.
Bowl #3
Switching to Pineapple Express, expecting appetite over/under 74.5 minutes.
Don't mind me--these AI responses appear so beautiful within.
ex: best novel about a last man on earth and what loneliness does to his soul
AI Overview
Based on the criteria of a last man on Earth and the profound psychological impact of solitude on the soul, the best novel is widely considered to be
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.
Here are the top recommendations based on that specific, haunting theme:
1. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (1954)
- The Plot: Robert Neville is the last human left in a world where everyone else has become a vampire due to a pandemic.
- The Soul's Loneliness: This is the definitive novel about the madness of extreme isolation. Matheson focuses on the daily grind of survival, the intense desire for human connection, the descent into alcoholism, and the ultimate, ironic realization that Neville is the "monster" to the new society. It highlights how loneliness can destroy, then reshape, a person's morality and sanity.
2. The Last Man by Mary Shelley (1826)
- The Plot: Set in the late 21st century, this is the original "last man on Earth" novel. Lionel Verney is the sole survivor of a plague that wipes out humanity.
- The Soul's Loneliness: Written by the author of Frankenstein, this book is a deeply emotional, existential study of despair. Verney watches his world, his family, and his friends die, leaving him to wander an empty Earth, grappling with the weight of being the final witness to human history.
3. The Dog Stars by Peter Heller (2012)
- The Plot: A flu pandemic has decimated the population, leaving Hig to live with his dog and a misanthropic gun-nut in an abandoned airport in Colorado.
- The Soul's Loneliness: This novel is a lyrical, intimate look at loneliness. It explores the sorrow of losing one's past and the desperate, fragile hope of finding love again, focusing heavily on how isolation affects one's humanity and capacity for trust.
4. Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (1949)
- The Plot: Isherwood Williams emerges from a secluded cabin to find nearly all of humanity wiped out by a plague.
- The Soul's Loneliness: Unlike the others, this book focuses on the slow, psychological shift from being a "modern man" to becoming a witness to the return of nature and the breakdown of human knowledge. It is a quieter, more philosophical look at the loneliness of being the last keeper of civilization.
Summary Recommendation
- For psychological horror and deep emotional despair, choose I Am Legend.
- For classic, existential existentialism and despair, choose The Last Man.
- For poetic, modern reflection on loss, choose The Dog Stars.
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I could do without the vampires, but thinking about the Matheson.
Almost forgot that if I can survive this horrid Neal Stephenson's Seveneves (thru 30 hours of 32 hour audiobook and still tempted to bail), then I was thinking Clifford D. Simak's Way Station. Similar themes, different angle, perhaps. Not an outsider to the vampires, but to the aliens he negotiates with for eternal life, or something similarly hideous.
More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy...
Dollaring for Bowls
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Cereal Milk with Inzane in the Membrane mixer as CM too fresh.
More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy...
Dollaring for Bowls
#5
Cereal Milk with Inzane in the Membrane mixer as CM too fresh.
