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"Realising this is in part a 2010s recession novel 😌 I'll have to add it to my list (so far that includes The Rachel Incident + The Bee Sting)" — May 16, 2026 04:18PM
"Realising this is in part a 2010s recession novel 😌 I'll have to add it to my list (so far that includes The Rachel Incident + The Bee Sting)" — May 16, 2026 04:18PM
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""The streets, shuttered for the repose of Sunday, swarmed with a gaily coloured crowd. Like illumined pearls the lamps shone from the summits of their tall poles upon the living texture below, which, changing shape and hue unceasingly, sent up into the warm grey evening air an unchanging, unceasing murmur." (p. 52)" — Apr 04, 2026 02:19PM
""The streets, shuttered for the repose of Sunday, swarmed with a gaily coloured crowd. Like illumined pearls the lamps shone from the summits of their tall poles upon the living texture below, which, changing shape and hue unceasingly, sent up into the warm grey evening air an unchanging, unceasing murmur." (p. 52)" — Apr 04, 2026 02:19PM
“You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“But maybe the road split between:
a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising”
― All Fours
a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising”
― All Fours
“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“He tried to hate God but he doesn’t believe in God. He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral but he couldn’t keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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