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read in September 2023
val said:
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good lord. wow. i made the mistake of starting this as i was doing my merle speech and unconsciously put a lot of it into my first draft, which was quickly flagged as being a little too alienating and a bit too Much. retrospectively, it was a little ...more "
progress:
(page 13 of 112)
"promised i’d reread this on the plane but i started crying because of turbulence so i only got a little bit into it 🥀 i promise i’ll keep going though. i’ve already uncovered so many bits i missed the first time because i didn’t know about ELX back then 😈😈😈" — Nov 30, 2025 11:23PM
"promised i’d reread this on the plane but i started crying because of turbulence so i only got a little bit into it 🥀 i promise i’ll keep going though. i’ve already uncovered so many bits i missed the first time because i didn’t know about ELX back then 😈😈😈" — Nov 30, 2025 11:23PM
progress:
(page 52 of 244)
"okay so virginia woolf just sent me into a spiral because every literary "era" is defined by something that a group of authors do differently compared to those who have come before and it takes a group of people to defy convention to create a new hallmark of literature and that's truly so real and so cool and so inspiring #iloveessays" — Apr 12, 2025 12:22AM
"okay so virginia woolf just sent me into a spiral because every literary "era" is defined by something that a group of authors do differently compared to those who have come before and it takes a group of people to defy convention to create a new hallmark of literature and that's truly so real and so cool and so inspiring #iloveessays" — Apr 12, 2025 12:22AM
progress:
(page 121 of 272)
"starting to become convinced that literary theorists were all a little insane because how else could they come up with reality-bending theories like that" — Jan 19, 2025 03:58AM
"starting to become convinced that literary theorists were all a little insane because how else could they come up with reality-bending theories like that" — Jan 19, 2025 03:58AM
“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“Sure, cried the tenant men,but it’s our land…We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it’s no good, it’s still ours….That’s what makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it."
"We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t like a man."
"Yes, but the bank is only made of men."
"No, you’re wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
"We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t like a man."
"Yes, but the bank is only made of men."
"No, you’re wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
“This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we". ”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“That you had more hidden away inside you than anyone else she’d ever met.”
― Hamnet
― Hamnet
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
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