Brad
all i do now is read, when i am alone
and i am almost never alone. this is nerve wracking

Trista
I don’t really get to read much anymore.
It’s sort of sad.

Brad
i’m on my third Douglas Coupland novel, now Generation X
before this i read three Jim Crace novels
so we’re going for… six novels in two months? maybe more? this has to be some sort of record.
wow, maybe eight novels in two and a half months.. pretty cool. i should get a prize or something.

Trista
Indeed.

Brad
Douglas Coupland seems to write everything I am thinking. Life being meaningless, disillusioned with the rat race and/or a future within the rat race, and how can that possibly mean anything and why doesn’t anyone else seem to be going completely insane thinking about it like I am?
and how can one live a day-to-day life just making it and be ok with the fact that the only reason they do is because they’re just terrified of what would happen if they stopped?
is life really just working yourself into a corner where you have no choice to keep working because you fear the consequences of difference? bah!
maybe not the best thing i can be reading at this point
but i can’t stop
it’s like there are answers in the fact that someone is giving words to questions i’ve been unable to articulate