What could be a grim reality has instead pumped his life full of vigor. Has made him live big and good. I have strived my whole life to follow in his nihilistic, clown-shoed footsteps. To stare our pointlessness in the face, and waddle along toward happiness because of it.

I liked the depiction of nihilism as a useful philosophical path to a kind of simple, in the moment happiness. Didn’t like it enough to read the whole book.

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Published on August 15, 2023.

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