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What I did expect before starting this classic work of science fiction:

🏴Developing boredom over the sci-fi stuff
🏴 A yawning session because 💅🏻classics💅🏻
🏴 A ruthless attack of severe headache as a result of braincells' overstimulation
🏴 Coming to the realization one more time that I'm soundly stupid


But the reality proved to be so much worse:

🟣 Me on the brink of drinking myself into mental aberration so that my mind can deal with all the philosophical themes raised in this book with the right amount of efficiency

🟣 Effulgent revelation of the fact that I waste the half of my life on musing about things that are primitive and mediocre instead of using any intellectual potential I possess (but I might be wrong) 🥲

🟣 My utter fascination with the unprecedentedly tender and touching love story in a science fiction work... fascination exarcebated by the surprise factor of it being one of the major aspects of the story

🟣 Vivid pictures of the beautiful, ominous but fascinatingly serene planet with the mysterious ocean conjuring up in my head with my involuntary, passive consent

🟣 Tingles running down my spine, and stomach churning from the vague sense of anxiousness, combined, quite paradoxically, with serenity that invaded me throughout the book

🟣 Frustration coming from the necessity to skim read a large chunk of text dedicated to explaining scientifically the inner workings and profound research on the fictional planet 🥲 (it was amazing and it made me feel obnoxiously stupid; I thought it could have been cut short because a lot of the details didn't add up much neither to the philosophical agenda nor to the plotline)

This book deserves a very thorough, analytical review I'm incapable of right now because 1) my body is devoid of alcohol in its system; 2) I'm too disappointed in my current self to procrastinate productively.

See y'all here to discuss this thrilling, surprisingly romantic, deeply psychological and philosophical work written by an extremely gifted person once I'm in a better place 🫂