reading Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air, a piece of high octane award bait about being a talented neurosurgeon and ~philosopher of mortality~ then finding out you're going to die young of cancer, and there's this passage in it that is just bugging the shit out of me
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this is the prequel to Ready Player One it's setting up the big dead guy mystery
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fucking hanukkah ass ice cream sandwich that didn't melt after 30 minutes and then came out of the freezer perfectly reconstituted
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He lost me at “An ER patient arrived while he was eating lunch”. I’m quite sure that *nobody* eats in the ER. Break room!
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oh, sorry, that's just me compressing the story actually. he was in the cafeteria when they arrived and was paged
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great thread
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book was fucked up
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you also a fan of the part where he's contemplating the weight of his natural role as the decider of who we shouldn't bother to save
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It was a rollercoaster, but worth the ride.
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This is exactly the kind of thing I obsess over and I salute you.
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