brief excerpt from email exchange "[Mountain of Interest...]"

my mailbox door was mostly stuck shut from the sheer volume of things inside. i hadn’t checked it for about 2 weeks. the contents were

-credit card
-NES bill
-student loan “thank you” letter, telling me “thank you for using corning credit union to fund your higher education. your student loan has entered repayment.”
     -chart on “thank you” letter depicting a “mountain” of interest (~133% of original principal) accruing by 2024
-“phenomenology of spirit” - georg wilhelm friedrich hegel
-“kierkegaard: the construction of the aesthetic” - theodor adorno
-expired save-a-lot coupons