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8 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
OK my poor memory is driving me crazy. What's the novel that's has what sounds like a very similar premise: a secret society of immortals who are born into new bodies when they die and leave messages for each other across time and are trying to stop and/or begin the apocalypse?
Googling points me to a series called The Incrementalists which sounds even more like the book I'm remembering, but I skimmed the preview of it on Amazon and I don't think that's what I had in mind!
Thanks to @pomodrunkard for coming up with answer: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (I had the plot a bit wrong). Probably not all that similar to this new show, but seemingly very similar to a different book called The Incrementalists which was clogging up my search
In case anyone's intrigued, I didn't really love the book, which is why I forgot the title and some of the key plot points

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Uh oh I just realized that my final playlist still has 21 songs on it. There will be a brief delay in posting as I agonize over which one to cut
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80 SONGS FOR 80 YEARS
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BOB DYLAN FOR BEGINNERS

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First the rules: Original studio recordings only. No alternate takes or live versions (unless there are only live versions). And no songs not written by Bob. (Check out the debut album or World Gone Wrong if you want folk songs; Shadows in the Night if you want American Songbook)
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I know I’m a broken record here but the problem with this argument is that no one can even say what the offensive images are in On Beyond Zebra
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jfc these people are going to claim trump was right about the vaccine timeline. yes, many experts (not just nye, who is a knowledgable observer at best) were too pessimistic, but no one was as wrong as trump
You know who got the vaccine timeline right? Anthony Fauci
To be clear, the experts who said 12-18 months was too optimistic were also very accomplished doctors and epidemiologists working outside the political realm. They were not bad people, simply wrong.
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