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"Whelper, Pigge and Shumble" in this book who are journalists sound like something out of Animal Farm! 😭

This was some of the most racist section of the book I've read so far. Absolutely abominable and vile. I knew Evelyn was contentious in his racial viewpoints and knew he had a big colonial background in his own personal life, himself, but somehow coming across derogative racial terms like 'coon', 'black booby' and 'ape'; (and the n words) somehow never ceases to amaze me in the worst way. Story's getting good though.

Apparently the author was a terrible father. This knowledge hasn't had any obvious bearing on my perception of the text so far but it is interesting to know ig.

When Marxism manifesto meets mid 20th century colonial travelogue on africa and its politics = im bored out of my mind and gnawing at my knuckles and shredding my hair, proclaiming to the firmament "why oh why, evelyn, doth thou torturest me!? Why!?" 🫩

Gosh I read so much on hospital, wow.

God help me- the abominable French! At first, I was like "nah, I won't bother translating; I'll get the gist." Boy was i wrong! I ended up having to translate lines upon lines of French in Google translate lmao. Why, Evelyn, why!? 😭 at least I understood everything though, which I'm happy about. I feel like at this point, do I even need to add that this story was once again funny af? 😭😹