Status Updates From Orlando

he is rich and he is bored! the horror!!! i don't know when was the last time i read a book that had both such interesting sections and then bored me to death at times. to play a devil's advocate with myself, maybe that was the whole point of a mock biography. hm.

For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy; and he goes on to opine that one is twin tellow to the other; and draws from this the conclusion that all extremes of feeling are allied to madness; and so bids us take refuge in the true Church (in his view the Anabaptist), which is the only harbour, port, anchorage, etc., he said,

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for now i'm sceptical ab this one, but i hope it'll pick up after the 1st switch. it's easy to understand why she eased up on the prose a bit for the purposes of the style of the book, but i do gotta say i miss the narrative flare of mrs dalloway

am i high?

quiero salir de esta carceeeeelllll