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My attention span splashes and recedes with no effect on this solid object of a book

Jameson is long-winded. I’m clawing for survival to the end of this book, I must finish it. It might be one of the most difficult books I’ve read. It’s proving to me that ADD reading styles are like waves to this book which is like a sea wall or pylon sunk deep in the ground. My concentration splashes and recedes w/ no effect

Finished the Sartre section. It started to make a little more sense to me. Still pretty difficult and dense. Something about comparing Sartre to Marx in his sense of understanding history, and what this means for literature. Sartre has his own lingo and his own set of concepts, his own philosophical structure

God help me, the 100-page section on Sartre is melting under my eyes and starting to make some sense.

The Jean-Paul Sartre section is starting and I feel very bored with it already. Something about Sartre is mind-numbing…

Very dense but I’m able with my feeble brain to pick up glimpses and glimmerings of things. Need to read Schiller and more Freud. I’m comparing this book to The Years of Theory where Jameson lectured over zoom on French theorists. This is constructed prose, and oh how constructed it is…I’m on the trail of something, not exactly clear

I’m having a really tough time bros