The End of Mr. Y

The End of Mr. Y (2006) is a novel by Scarlett Thomas'' about a PhD student who has been researching the 19th century writer Thomas Lumas. She finds an extremely rare copy of Lumas' novel The End of Mr. Y in a second-hand bookshop. The book is rumoured to be cursed - everyone who has read it has died not long afterwards.

Quotes

 * Thought experiments or, in German, gedankenexperiments, are experiments that, for whatever reason, cannot be physically carried out, but must instead be conducted internally, via logic and reasoning, in the mind.
 * p. 95


 * (I am translating as I go, here, and 'family' is the closest I can get to this sense memory of togetherness and connectedness)
 * p. 184 (while being inside the mind of a mouse)


 * [...] big guy who gave me a tiny little pipe and feeling something I'd never felt before: complete contentment, something similar to how you feel just after an orgasm, but more - where the whole world is a big, soft duvet and you're just about to go to sleep, and you feel as if nothing is will ever hurt you again. And lastly fuck you whore.
 * p. 189