Exhaustion: A History
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Exhaustion: A History is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between May 23, 2022 and August 05, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “I’ll probably do this at least for Exhaustion: A History and maybe others”; “I’m adding four more: Exhaustion: A History”; “As Anna Schaffner explains it in Exhaustion: A History”. It most often appears alongside 1587, 538, acedia.
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- Category: Books
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: May 23, 2022
- Last seen: August 05, 2022
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- 1587 (1 shared issues)
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- 538 (1 shared issues)
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- acedia (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Against Nature (1 shared issues)
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- Anna Schaffner (1 shared issues)
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- Astralcodexten Com (1 shared issues)
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- Billy Crystal (1 shared issues)
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- Boniface VIII (1 shared issues)
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- Book Review Contest (1 shared issues)
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- Borrelia (1 shared issues)
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- BW (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
These were selected more or less by popular vote. I’m still reading some entries and might give them Honorable Mention status (or maybe promote them to finalist?) if I find more I like. I’ll probably do this at least for Exhaustion: A History and maybe others. But for now, if you’re not an official finalist, you should feel free to post your review on your own blog or do whatever else you want with it. If I end up liking yours later, I won’t disqualify it just because you did something else. Also, there were many incredibly amazing reviews this year, please don’t feel bad if you didn’t win. I’ll say more about this later.
1: We’ve made it through the original twelve Book Review finalists. I’m busy the next few weeks and want to keep the free Friday posts, so I’m adding four more: Exhaustion: A History, God Emperor of Dune, 1587, and Kora In Hell. I chose these through a combination of reader preference, my preference, and wanting to showcase some unusual genres of review. I realize this is annoying to other finalists who will have to wait longer for a smaller chance at a prize, so I’ll double the amount of all monetary prizes as compensation.
As Anna Schaffner explains it in Exhaustion: A History, you will find yourself in good company. The book has testimony from Charles Darwin, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Mann, amongst others, giving accounts of their chronic pathological exhaustion.