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"Planned to read on Monday, woke up violently hungover, slept until 6:15 after my classes, went to a concert, got back, did not do my hw, woke up at 7:30 today, and did the reading/listening this morning. I could not tell you a thing about it. Were so back." — Feb 10, 2026 08:22AM
"Planned to read on Monday, woke up violently hungover, slept until 6:15 after my classes, went to a concert, got back, did not do my hw, woke up at 7:30 today, and did the reading/listening this morning. I could not tell you a thing about it. Were so back." — Feb 10, 2026 08:22AM
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2024, McCarter Translation: Okay hear me out.
You know when you’re eating eggs and it’s awesome cause they’re eggs. And suddenly, without warning, you realize you’re eating eggs. They’re gross. I turn into the grinch for eggs.
This felt like a plain ...more "
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"Why you would assign that every student must buy the psychical book in a specific translation, only to not read a vast majority of the text will be always beyond me. I’m just rereading the whole thing. Mama didn’t raise a quitter but she did raise someone with insane sunk cost value for using a $15 coupon." — Feb 05, 2026 11:12PM
"Why you would assign that every student must buy the psychical book in a specific translation, only to not read a vast majority of the text will be always beyond me. I’m just rereading the whole thing. Mama didn’t raise a quitter but she did raise someone with insane sunk cost value for using a $15 coupon." — Feb 05, 2026 11:12PM
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"I know it refers to actual heads but I couldn’t stop laughing imaging Ahab saying “I don't need an I phone X or airpods... I need a Philly cheese steak, some weed, and a bitch to give me head #mood” in a raspy, harpooner voice.
It’s 2:30. I have office hours in six hours. And I’m reading about the whales!" — Feb 05, 2026 11:08PM
"I know it refers to actual heads but I couldn’t stop laughing imaging Ahab saying “I don't need an I phone X or airpods... I need a Philly cheese steak, some weed, and a bitch to give me head #mood” in a raspy, harpooner voice.
It’s 2:30. I have office hours in six hours. And I’m reading about the whales!" — Feb 05, 2026 11:08PM
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― Macbeth
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― Macbeth
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“What a lousy earth! He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused, or abandoned. How many families hungered for food they could not afford to buy? How many hearts were broken? How many suicides would take place that same night, how many people would go insane? How many cockroaches and landlords would triumph? How many winners were losers, successes failures, and rich men poor men? How many wise guys were stupid? How many happy endings were unhappy endings? How many honest men were liars, brave men cowards, loyal men traitors, how many sainted men were corrupt, how many people in positions of trust had sold their souls to bodyguards, how many had never had souls? How many straight-and-narrow paths were crooked paths? How many best families were worst families and how many good people were bad people? When you added them all up and then subtracted, you might be left with only the children, and perhaps with Albert Einstein and an old violinist or sculptor somewhere.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
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