i am a simple man i enjoyed it the whole way through. the humour and structure were very refreshing and i know it will be something i revisit.

it is easy to understand the collapse of this protagonist. of course you are irreversibly damaged after realizing yourself (ourselves) an expendable pawn. and for empire of all things, even worse. how do you (we) live on with that damage, that dehumanization, the creeping nihilism? maybe there is a distant planet out in the boonies of the stars where i am not the only one constantly unspooling. where everyone else is always unspooling too. where coming apart is default. maybe that knowing gets us through cruelty. that there is a before and a beyond the darkness of entropy. we will suffer, of course we will suffer, and we can always be before and beyond it.