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Which volume of On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle are you guys on?
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>>24944937
Oh so you speak Danish then?
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>In Solvej Balle's interpretation of the time loop trope, Tara Selter, a dealer in rare and antique books, keeps repeating a single day, November 18th. Balle's unique twist is that Tara's starting location for each day is not fixed. Rather, she begins each new day wherever she ended up the previous day. This gives her far more freedom than other time loop protagonists, including those of Palm Springs or Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day.

Hmmm.
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>>24944948
Yeah bro
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haven't heard of this book till now. the fact it's called On the Calculation of Volume, and the separate books in the series are called On the Calculation of Volume I, On the Calculation of Volume II, etc., feels like deliberate trolling by the author, intended to piss off me personally. do the titles read as puns in Danish too?
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>>24944953
Sounds horrible
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i'm waiting till it's all out
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>>24945133
Won't that take another three years or something?
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>>24945143
yeah, what's the hurry?
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>>24945146
What if next year the translator dies in a car crash and the book rights are purchased by Disney and also books are declared illegal.
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>>24945172
that would be pretty funny
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>>24944937
My girlfriend read this and I in turn read passages and we both agreed it was a midwit nothingburger. I hate when books try so hard to be mysterious. It’s just an excuse for empty prose.
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My girlfriend just picked up the third book last night.

I think it’s boring and has a tired premise.
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>>24945187
Get rid of her.
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>>24945196

God, I wish.
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>>24945184
>>24945187
Why are you both lying on the internet? The same lie in the same thread?
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>>24945246
I showed my girlfriend your post and she laughed adorably and now she's giving me a backrub and also cooking me dinner and she's a pawg btw. Plus none of my short stories have ever been rejected by a literary magazine that I was sure was niche enough to accept them.
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>>24945252
Woah it's like I'm in On the Calculation of Volume IV, the same faggots telling the same lies over and over without end
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>>24945246
>he fell for the nogf meme
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>>24945254

This is objectively funny. My girlfriend got a laugh out of it.



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