The End of Mr. Y

The End of Mr. Y (2006) is a novel by Scarlett Thomas about a PhD student who has been researching the 19th century writer Thomas Lumas. She finds an extremely rare copy of Lumas' novel The End of Mr. Y in a second-hand bookshop. The book is rumoured to be cursed - everyone who has read it has died not long afterwards. Quotes Thought experiments or, in German, gedankenexperiments'', are experiments that, for whatever reason, cannot be physically carried out, but must instead be conducted internally, via logic and reasoning, in the mind. p. 95 (I am translating as I go, here, and 'family' is the closest I can get to this sense memory of togetherness and connectedness) p. 184 (while being inside the mind of a mouse) [...] big guy who gave me a tiny little pipe and feeling something I'd never felt before: complete contentment, something similar to how you feel just after an orgasm, but more - where the whole world is a big, soft duvet and you're just about to go to sleep, and you feel as if nothing is will ever hurt you again. And lastly fuck you whore. p. 189 External links Title, The he:ויקיציטוט:תבניות דף/יצירות