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"the red theater chapter talking about a rural troupe performing revolutionary operas in their community brought real tears to my eyes and made me want to throw up. i also wanted to say something about how funny mao is but i think that i was putting my own modern ironic lens over him and i wasnt fully willing to grapple with his total straightforward sincerity and that is on me actually" — Sep 30, 2025 07:11PM
"the red theater chapter talking about a rural troupe performing revolutionary operas in their community brought real tears to my eyes and made me want to throw up. i also wanted to say something about how funny mao is but i think that i was putting my own modern ironic lens over him and i wasnt fully willing to grapple with his total straightforward sincerity and that is on me actually" — Sep 30, 2025 07:11PM
If she couldn’t love her fourteen-year-old schoolboy, she could at least love cubism.
“If she couldn’t love her fourteen-year-old schoolboy, she could at least love cubism.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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