Status Updates From Stop-Time

finished: 6) Please Don't Take My Sunshine Away

oh yikes ):

finished: 5) Hate, and a Kind of Music

Page 75
"(...), but in the knowledge that they gave each other nothing, for all the time they had. Can they have understood, as each approached a lonely old age, that they had denied each other's reality? Puppets holding puppet strings, each puppet a puppetmaster, in deliberate ignorance, as if life were no more than a cycle of their separate fantasies, as if (...)

finished: 4) White Days and Red Nights

Page 55
"The smell was overpowering. It was useless to breathe carefully as I'd done outside; here the smell was so pungent and thick it seemed to have taken the place of air - a hot substitute filling my lungs, seeping into my blood, and making me its own creature. With the first deep breath I was no longer an air breather. I'd changed into another species."

Page 47 - Jean and Frank

"He knew of course that it wasn't lions and tigers I was afraid of - by using that image he was attempting to simplify my fear into the realm of childishness (which he could then ignore in good conscience) as well as to shame me out of it."

finished: 3) Going North

P.40
"My mind halts. I'm too young to know what I'm watching. Two women, one old, one young, keeping up appearances."

P.42-44 About Jean
"Jean wanted more than a sign of recognition (...) he wanted you to become him, to discard immediately all ideas of your own(...)"
"He had a certain good-natured stoicism in those days."
"He saw all forms of beauty dimly, but most particularly his own."

finished: 2) Space and a Dead Mule

Page 23 (about his 15 year old sister)
"Her independence was no more than a courageous bluff. But it was all she had. In her loneliness she saw the world vaguely - thus her tendency to color life with ready-made tints."

started reading this Memoir a bit ago but couldn't log it cause it was on its way to Michael as a Christmas present :D 🌲

Finished: 1) Savages
people trying their hardest to recreate "Lord of the Flies" in social experiments needn't look any further than a boarding school full of prepubescent boys - brimming with hormones and self righteousness 😩 brrrr!