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I tried rereading Perdido Street Station last week and couldn't make it past a few chapters. I guess the last time I read it I was a teenager, so maybe, as they note here, it's "a young man's book", both for author and reader.

What made me stop is that everything is intentionally gross, seemingly just for the sake of getting a reaction. I picked it up one morning and read "airships moved from cloud to cloud like slugs on rotten cabbages" and just put it down again. Maybe that was groundbreaking fantasy once, and I can appreciate it as a form of world building - but I'd rather read words written by people who can see the good in things, as well as the bad, rather than someone who's every metaphor is turgid and intended to invoke disgust.

I think, when I was a teenager, I read to expose myself to all possible worldviews, without discernment. Enjoyment was secondary. Now that I'm in my 40s, I still read to expose myself to worldviews, but only ones that I feel can uplift me or teach me something new (and still for enjoyment, of course). I don't need any more exposure to purely negative worldbuilding in my life, it feels pointless.

> With the exception of Google Docs

So, one out of three webapps that you tested could handle this much text. It suggests that the problem for the other two is their implementation, rather than any limitation of the browser.

Of the two that failed, did you also try the app versions to see if they failed too? I really doubt the Notion app could handle 16000 lines of text.

> not all of christendom subscribes to the view that it was literally one man, some take a less literal view

I grew up in a Christian country and your "some" is doing a lot of work. Sure, perhaps some specific Christian theologists take that view. But, all actual Christians are taught from childhood that it was one specific man, tempted by one specific woman into eating a literal fruit. The only thing that's generally mentioned as open to interpretation is whether the fruit was an apple. You might get exposed to more nuanced theological views if you study at a seminary, but not while living your life as an average person who identifies as Christian, which is the vast majority.

Which company do you think has the most experience at high volume electric cars? And does this translate to a higher quality/price ratio than Tesla or BYD?