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Trust

Mary Sisson

Recommended by 2 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Eliot Peper loved it
Trust by Hernan Diaz is an onion of a novel in which every chapter peels back a layer to reveal yet more beneath. Following the meteoric rise of a Wall Street financier in the early 20th century, the intricately plotted story will seduce you, transport you, stimulate you, mislead you, and, ultimately, move you.

on eliotpeper.substack.com · 28 Dec 2025

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi liked it
Mind candy: the trials and tribulations of the mid-level Canadian diplomat who becomes humanity's first accredited representative to the multiple much-more-advanced-than-us alien species with whom we turn out to share a wormhole nexus.

on bactra.org · 31 Dec 2014

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.