Unrateable. Unshelveable. In some ways a CONcept piece, willfully designed to liquidify parts of your brain in order to open the appropriate channels to make you a vessel or a duplex conduit between... I don't fully understand what I have been reading for the past months. At the same time I must confess that certain ()holes have opened up within and light has been shed on formerly obscured and/or occulted regions while at the same time covering formerly enlighted parts in darkness. Maybe I was wrong to read it all as a flow? Maybe I was right to only read two pages at a time? Maybe that cybernetic script I have been playing with in my mind is some sort of a reply?

At roughly the time I started reading Cyclonopedia, the value of my stock portfolio started to skyrocket, and roughly at the time I finished it, the growth stopped as suddenly as it had began - at about triple the initial value. Not that it amounts to much, anyway. A poor man's wealth remains modest. But it's a noteworthy coincidence nonetheless.

There are ideas in this book that do tickle the imagination, and there are other, more philosophical aspects I'll probably carry with me for a while. There is also the hope that - as a writer - I'll let myself be inspired by the positive aspects of the book as well as it's more problematic (but still strangely attractive) tendencies to be utterly ununderstandable. I have no idea who Negarestani writes for, but those readers are either aeons ahead of me intellectually, or they know the code to unlock it's occulted content.

I wish I was one of them and I wish it not. They are probably all Abdul Alhazred's of the 21'st century.