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And since I’d been laid off, I had grown increasingly numb scrolling through job listings with words that seemed to evaporate upon reading, their meaning emptied out, only unfamiliar shapes and sounds.
“Being able to see; being able to hold a book; being able to turn its page; being able to maintain a reading posture; being able to go to a bookshop to buy a book - I loathed the exclusionary machismo of book culture that demanded that its participants meet these five criteria of able-bodiedness. I loathed, too, the ignorant arrogance of all those self-professed book-lovers so oblivious to their privilege.”
― Hunchback
― Hunchback
“there are words that cover up the world.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.”
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Haritlak’s 2025 Year in Books
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