Status Updates From The White Notebook

This is Gides attempt to convince his mother and the world that he should marry his first cousin Madeleine. He draws a lot of inspiration from Flaubert, Geothe and Schopenhauer. Very compelling and alluring descriptions of inner conflict as well as nature romanticism. Reminds me of Lispector even though they have very different outlooks on God and life. Promising!

I'm TRANSCENDED. "Make your soul the host of several bodies. Feel it vibrate to the emotions of others as well as to your own and it will forget its own griefs when it ceases to think only of itself. ”