"As the end of the year looms up like the handle of a rake I've just stepped on, I recall the preceding 12 months as a period characterised by a steep erosion of trust and a sinking feeling that nothing is to be taken at face value. We subsist on a steady diet of lies, distortion and AI slop. Everything is getting stupider, including me. That's why, when it comes to examining the year, I choose to reckon with nothing but cold, hard numbers."
"27 Books I've read this year. I didn't start keeping a list on my phone to impress people. I did it because in September I suddenly realised I couldn't remember anything about any of the books I'd read recently, including the titles and authors' names. When I wrote a column about this, someone suggested keeping a tally might help. The list itself proved to be a major investigative undertaking,"
Household composition shifted dramatically: adult sons now comprise 66.6% of occupants, up from 0% a year earlier and reversing a long-term outward migration. A deliberate reading tally records 27 books after a sudden inability to recall recent titles and authors, prompting combing online orders, book-club messages and shelf positions to verify readings. One self-written joke was told 14 times to bewildered listeners and depends on a willing comic foil, which most acquaintances decline. Additional counts are provisional, including a book that may be finished before midnight on New Year's Eve, and several domestic changes accompany the statistics.
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