Days Passing
- Days feel like they are compressed lately. I don’t feel like I’m attending life that seriously. This is not an unfamiliar feeling, to be honest. When this happens, I always find myself saying: “I know days are passing but I don’t know if the time is progressing.”
- A few months ago, I mentioned that I’m giving audiobooks a chance. As of yesterday, I concluded the experiment and once more decided that audiobooks are not for me. Although the listening experience was enjoyable, I don’t have that much opportunity to wear headphones and listen to a book, and when I have the opportunity it’s usually for a brief period (10-15 mins), during which I usually prefer listening to something on YouTube. Because of this, the book I was listening to, The Time Regulation Institute, was waiting unattended even though I was enjoying it very much. I decided to continue reading it as an ebook.
- In parallel, I continue reading The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe. At first, I found it hard to read, mostly because of the author’s choice of words: a lot of medieval terms and words Wolfe invented himself (at least I assume so, because they have no definition in the dictionary). After grinding through 1/3 of the book, reading became easier. I think I started to get used to Severian.
- On Thursday, I published my most popular post ever on this blog. It’s a wonderful feeling to see something I wrote resonate with others. Also, I noticed how different the attention of strangers makes me feel here compared to social media, especially Twitter. On Twitter, I had a few viral tweets (thousands of retweets and likes) in the past, and they always made me feel dirty, even ashamed of myself. Here, on the other hand, it made me feel connected.
- We watched 28 Days Later (2002) this week. I’m not well versed in the history of zombie-apocalypse movies, but I thought this movie established a few tropes in the genre, the biggest being “in any apocalyptic setting the most horrid thing you will encounter is other humans”.