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I’m really having a good time with this book! The writing is beautiful and old and witty. It makes me want to read more old writing. It’s exact and specific. I think as we’ve switched to film and digital media, and certainly with AI, we’ve lost skill in writing. Our vocabularies seem to have shrunk, and it has limited our ability to convey meaning or describe with nuance. I like the plot of this book, too.

welll i gotta say, i have no idea where this is going. idk how i feel about sebastian becoming a monk. but the pattern i’m getting is that the family cannot escape the curse of catholicism. it had taken over everybody’s life whether they acknowledge it or not. all of them are rotten from the core. they feel shame all the time, yet they keep believing in the church, and hating it at the same time …