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"Not making it far in this one. I thought it would be nice in the audiobook rotation since I have been reading Fitch Riley’s biography and Beach’s own letters and memoir, but it was the opposite. The tone didn’t hit for me and it’s all just too fanciful and romanticized in a way that felt off. When I looked more into this I found a lot of credible critique of this portrayal of Beach, so I returned it." Sep 14, 2025 02:00PM

 
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Virginia Woolf
“As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the suffering of our fellow-prisoners; decorate the dungeon with flowers and air-cushions; be as decent as we possibly can.”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf
“No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.”
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf
“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.”
Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Sarah Schulman
“There is something inherently stupid about gentrified thinking. It’s a dumbing down and smoothing over of what people are actually like. It’s a social position rooted in received wisdom, with aesthetics blindly selected from the presorted offerings of marketing and without information or awareness about the structures that create its own delusional sense of infallibility. Gentrified thinking is like the bourgeois version of Christian fundamentalism, a huge, unconscious conspiracy of homogenous patterns with no awareness about its own freakishness. The gentrification mentality is rooted in the belief that obedience to consumer identity over recognition of lived experience is actually normal, neutral, and value free.”
Sarah Schulman, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

Tilly Lawless
“You may think these streets are yours to walk, but they belonged to someone else before: the queers, the hobos, the junkies, the trannies, the prozzies - those streets were theirs before they were yours so be careful, you may find you have to wipe your shoes clean before going into your nice apartment.”
Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

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