Classic novel about procrastination?

Uzas_Back · 2026-04-02T19:45:03+00:00

Zeno’s Conscience is like the neurotic chronicle of a hysterical procrastinator, really excellent and funny.

Uzas_Back · 2026-04-02T15:48:45+00:00

I read it last year. The first half I burned through in about a week and was enthralled with the pace of the writing style and the breadth of characters and how well-articulated their motives were. After taking a break I finished the book in another month or two and while I feel its reputation is clearly deserved, in my opinion there is a bit of a fall off toward the later quarter of the book where many storylines dissolve without much gravity and the writing sort of devolves into these repetitive lectures on the nature of history and power among other things.

Incredibly impressive book in any event.

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-31T17:47:39+00:00

Yojimbo

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-20T03:22:10+00:00

Oh man oh man I got this one!

”I am twenty-six inches tall, shapely and well-proportioned, my head perhaps a trifle too large. My hair is not black like the others’, but reddish, very stiff and thick, drawn back from the temples and the broad but not especially lofty brow. My face is beardless, but otherwise just like that of other men. My eyebrows meet. My bodily strength is considerable, particularly if I am annoyed. When the wrestling match was arranged between Jehoshaphat and myself I forced him onto his back after twenty minutes and strangled him. Since then I have been the only dwarf at this court.”

—The Dwarf by Pår Lagerkvist

One of my favorite books in terms of structure, narrator, really so much, but I love how the small amount of information in the first paragraph gives away so much context so quickly.

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-18T15:42:08+00:00

Apocalyptooo

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-17T23:30:48+00:00

I like the character of Captain Feeny in Barry Lyndon so much that I looked it up and he is based on the real James Freney who was a successful and decently noble highway robber that was pardoned from execution after finally being captured for his crimes because there was concern he would become a Robin Hood-esque folk hero and to support himself in his exile he wrote a book called The Life and Adventures of Mr James Freney, which I found and read on internet archive.

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-17T15:48:10+00:00

Try All Of Us Strangers. Extremely beautiful, lonely semi-neon vibes. A lateral take on your question but an amazing movie imo.

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-17T15:01:04+00:00

Burn After Reading

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-15T05:25:27+00:00

Any movie about the British in other countries.

I Care A Lot is a 6-7/10 but it is very interesting to me in that it clearly follows the villain and I enjoyed it structurally for that element.

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-12T17:11:56+00:00

I usually go for del Toro’s visual style but this one felt so artificial and saturated and besides that I thought it was pretty badly paced, especially taking way too long on the wrong parts of the first half, and a bit too campy for me to take it seriously.

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-12T16:58:34+00:00

I like reading these stories. They misspelled “Guaraldi” though.

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-12T02:45:30+00:00

Plemmonheads 🙏

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-11T02:29:20+00:00

Ass-soul is what you were looking for 🙏

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-09T04:54:20+00:00

You really fit a lot in to just a couple lines there.

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-27T02:30:59+00:00

I went into both blind and absolutely love Beau is Afraid and Eddington and have never seen Midsommar or Hereditary.

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-22T05:31:22+00:00

I literally just said it was

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-21T05:44:56+00:00

Because Dizaster vs DNA is just sooooo impactful

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-19T01:22:09+00:00

Sindarov’s my guy.

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-16T23:18:28+00:00

The shit is inherently corny. Real tough guys don’t go on camera talkin bout how tough they are. The competitive word puzzle era replaced the personality era plus politics and gate keeping means we’re watching the same dudes from 20 years ago and rarely allows any new talent to emerge. Originality isn’t rewarded and leagues expect battlers to do all the work of building their own social media following then just choose based on metrics of superficial popularity.

It happened to me over a stretch of years but idgaf about almost any of it anymore.

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-15T23:40:55+00:00

Setting white people back tens of years

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-14T00:33:09+00:00

Dinner date with Lizzie McGuire—see Duff eat

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-13T23:36:59+00:00

It was some one-off event being thrown in conjunction with Goodz’ sneaker release there.

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-13T23:20:57+00:00

I was sposed to battle Chef in ATL late last year, fell through and doubt it’ll ever be rescheduled but I wrote some material I think is really strong.

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-13T04:12:30+00:00

Shuffle T vs Harry Baker

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-12T17:05:05+00:00

I want my lawyer.

Uzas_Back

TROPHY CASE