Experiencing On the Calculation of Volume

I'm not sure I can add anything to thoughts on On the Calculation of Volume but now I'm all caught up to the English language releases I wanted to anyway. (Very vague spoilers for the books - though nothing that isn't mentioned in any blurb or synopsis.) It's a very meditative experience, reading these books. At least, I find it meditative. I understand how other people might find it boring. For me, though, it works. It's like how before you watch Jeanne Dielman you think, why does this have to be nearly three and a half hours long and then once you watch Jeanne Dielman you absolutely understand why it has to be nearly three and a half hours long. Why do four (thus far) pretty short and very repetitive volumes need to be four (thus far) pretty short and very repetitive volumes? Because that's what being trapped in a time loop is like! When an author can make the experience of reading the book so similar to the experience of the character(s) in the book... that's great writing.…