When We Cease to Understand the World - Book Group June 2021 discussion thread

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Hanneke Nov 2021 6:09pm, 29 Nov 2021 82,540 posts	0 Hanneke
Diogenes Nov 2021 6:16pm, 29 Nov 2021 64,843 posts	0 Diogenes So, who is La Caceta? Is it the head honcho himself? I’ve not read as many as I would’ve liked this year. I persevered with TLOB, OTBH was my choice and a book I already knew, and Golden Notebook one of previously read. Apart from that I’ve not read more than a page of any other choice, for which I apologise. I will do better next year.
Diogenes Nov 2021 6:18pm, 29 Nov 2021 64,844 posts	0 Diogenes Actually, I lied. I also read Kindred which I didn’t think was very good. I also have Dunces under way. I also swerved Cold Comfort Farm on account of having already read it.
Diogenes Nov 2021 6:19pm, 29 Nov 2021 64,845 posts	0 Diogenes I also start all my sentences with the words “I also”.
Diogenes Nov 2021 6:20pm, 29 Nov 2021 64,846 posts	0 Diogenes Sometimes I also finish them that way, or insert them in the middle.
Peregrinator Nov 2021 6:37pm, 29 Nov 2021 989 posts	0 Peregrinator I also 😊
Hanneke Nov 2021 6:41pm, 29 Nov 2021 82,542 posts	0 Hanneke I also do that
GregP Nov 2021 6:51pm, 29 Nov 2021 131,007 posts	0 GregP caceta sustantivo, femenino small ladle or dipper noun
Columba Nov 2021 8:49pm, 29 Nov 2021 21,438 posts	0 Columba I also = me too.
Diogenes Feb 2022 7:57am, 18 Feb 2022 67,373 posts	0 Diogenes I’m about half way through this book now, it’s very interesting to revisit all your well-informed reviews as I’m reading. The blur of fiction and non-fiction doesn’t bother, perhaps because I know nothing of the truths to be irritated by the fabulations. I was interested to learn of the original title as the translated one doesn’t really work, in my opinion. In a way it seems more to me about (crazy white) men who cease to be understood by the world and whose own alienation leads to destruction and self-destruction, with the work they do being obscure and meaningless, and in some cases, plain wrong. But I ought to finish the book before I make any further comment.