Status Updates From Street Haunting: A London A...

it’s like i’ll follow for an entire essay and the last four pages she throws the weirdest curve ball with an obscure reference from the tiniest detail of an inconsequential scene of a book i’ll never read and she runs with it so hard

Virginia, what the fuck are you on about?

no im definitely just lost

i think i’m lost but i also think im getting it? her essays make me so sleepy i can only read them before bed

She ends the story by essentially saying that while escaping responsibility through the lives of others is enjoyable, there’s comfort in your own experience of life.

Underlying the critique of social class is the idea that humans will be humans, will hope and dream and live and seek happiness in their circumstances

The story dives into an appreciation of the human experience. I understand now what she meant by the sociability of evening life. Not just interacting with others but considering their lives and experiences rather than focusing on the weight of your own life.

She goes on to describe the undesirables of society who try and fail to to escape the weight of reality. This story is at least in part a critique of social class and consumerism

I like how she juxtaposes the suffocation of daily life with the anonymity of an evening on the streets, the relief of being able to exist without the weight of expectations and memories