i also found it very frustrating. it reminded me of that famous article about the strange ritual practices of the Nacirema people. (which, if you don't feel li

i also found it very frustrating. it reminded me of that famous article about the strange ritual practices of the Nacirema people. (which, if you don't feel like reading it, is actually just an account of 20th-century American life, deliberately made to sound as weird as possible.) it's part of a book, so hopefully the rest of the book doesn't take the same tone.