Status Updates From Jude el oscuro

“Surely his plan should be to move inward through good and ill—to avoid morbid sorrow even though he did see the ugliness in the world? Bene agere et lætari—to do good cheerfully—which he had heard to be the philosophy of one Spinoza, might be his own even now.”

“when people of a later age look back
upon the barbarous customs and the superstitions of the times that we hav the unhappiness to live in, what will they say!”

i say werrrrrrqqqqqq sue

i’m sorry but sue is spilling the social moulds civilizations fits us into have no more relationship to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns you all can stay madddddd and keep my reviews in your mouths sue is the disruptive force in the borrrrring ass take

part 4 unlocked:

is jude ever gonna like do something

part three here we go still have to finish for
tmr morning

I have to put this book down for a few hours

“He was just living for the first time: not wasting life.”

“showing him to be a spare and thoughtful personage of five-and-forty.”

just say 45

SHES SO ME

“But if people did as you want to do, there’d be a general domestic disintegration. The family would no longer be the social unit.” Could this be any more on the nose

“That boy is crazy for book, that he is.”

part first done:

jude is so fucking annoying and arabella slays. he got what he deserved

“four-and-twenty hours after”

just say 28