About two hundred pages into the first volume of _The Man Without Qualities_

Actually very readable, for a high modernist classic. Short chapters help. If Ulysses' chapters were only a few pages long, people would be way more into it. Even if you're not really getting a chapter, you know it's gonna end soon. It keeps you moving.

It also covers really fascinating terrain. All, in some way, about the interaction between the life of…