This weeks’ Herb Sunday is pretty special.

Favourite tracks (there are so so many):

Van Morrison - Dweller On The Threshold

Bruce Springsteen - Between Heaven And Earth

Apple Music 🍏

Spotify πŸ’©

Finished reading: Juice by Tim Winton πŸ“š

πŸ₯΅πŸ₯΅πŸ₯΅πŸ₯΅πŸ₯΅ 5/5 - Superb.

Fantastic book, and a terrifying vision of the future.

“And what really stung was this. All these fools and criminals? They’re our ancestors. The future they ate was ours. The leftovers? Well, that’s our world. Such was our inheritance. To be robbed. Of food, water, safety. We were robbed of memory, comrade, and of the courage to think”.

“These were not letters designed to persuade. They were reminders to myself that what I’d had was real and beautiful, and they were a means by which I could escape the rage of victimhood and claim my great luck in having had those years”.

Finished reading: There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm πŸ“š

πŸ’­πŸ’­πŸ’­πŸ’­πŸ€” 4/5

Every now and then a book comes along and really makes you think. This was very well written with some very mind-bending ideas. Recommended.

“Aside from its ability to communicate telepathically, U-2200’s propensity to consume the part of a human’s memory where they remember how to ride a bicycle is its sole confirmed anomalous property.”

“A true description of what U-3125 is, or even an allusion to what it is, constitutes a containment breach and a lethal indirect cognitohazard.”