My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

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'I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that ever a man devised'When a Victorian scientist propels himself in the year 802

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Until a tragic accident happens and suddenly

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he took a vacation trekking in Nepal because a friend had told him

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where they are inspired and supported to start living from their own understanding and experience

that politics (formed) a backdrop to her public and often private actions

This book brings together many of the conversations Maharshi had with his followers in an intimate portrait of his beliefs and teachings

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Piketty argues for a new "participatory" socialism