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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2018

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What this book knows

Voluntary sedation becomes a blunt instrument for refusing a life felt to be empty, beautiful, and already dead.

Sex: Present
Work: Absent
Learning: Absent
Religion: Absent

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self-and-identity

I would test myself to see what was left of my emotions, what kind of shape I was in after so much sleep.
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In this way, I could stay in the black until my year of rest was up.
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embodiment

I was like a newborn animal. I rose with the sun. I had no dreams.
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Instead of guts, I just had air inside of me. What if the only way to sleep is death?
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grief

I had no burning urge to proclaim any fury or sadness. 'Hello,' was as far as I got in our hypothetical dialogue.
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I had to admit that it was a comfort to have Reva there. She was just as good as a VCR.
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