Textbook Sleep #12: Organic Chemistry

Welcome to Textbook Sleep, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid. Tonight’s reading will rapidly render you unconscious. It’s Organic Chemistry, a textbook from 1894 by W.H. Perkin and F. Stanley Kipping. Some find “Orgo” to be a fascinating pathway to a rewarding career, but most of us consider it a subject to be avoided at all costs. There’s no reason to steer clear of it now—it’s incomprehensible complexity will lull you to sleep, even if someone is using a jackhammer in your room. This particular textbook is even more boring than listening to, say, the Periodic Table of the Elements, a Textbook Sleep for another day, perhaps. Let us begin. This recording will end quietly. Get full access to Pieces of Jim at jimnolan1.substack.com/subscribe