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Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. -Daphne Kaplan

No entiendo nada 😭

Sooo good. Just started reading the letters from his mom. Wtf.

Ugh, so ridiculous as to be camp.

eh kok seruu?? minus pegel tangan, kudu baca di meja

Kept trekking forth, even though I'd initially planned to stop for the night, and have now finished chapter IX. Surprised by how easy this was to read, given its incredibly weird formatting. It also surprisingly dropped a list of thematically-relevant films, which will be added to my watchlist 🙂‍↕️

Kinda sick of Johnny's escapades, but at least his experiences with the (¿Minotaur?) are spooky

Тяжело сказать как глубоко я зашел

Have just finished Chapter VII & VIII. Tone was a bit more mellow than the last couple of chapters that I read, but still enjoying the book so far. Flicked ahead to check out how long the next chapter is, and it seems like the book's structure is going to become truly WEIRD in the next chapter.

i bought the remastered full-colour edition of this while in sweden back in july with the intention of getting the full house of leaves experience on reread. going to annotate and all that. it's almost halloween and i am in a suboptimal mental state, so now is arguably the best time for it

Only this: at every stage, from being an Explorer, Surveyor, Miner, Refiner, Designer and Maker- you will risk more, see more, gather mote, process more, fashion more, consider moie, love more, suffer more, imagine more and in the end know why less means more and leave what doesn’t and keep what implies and create what matters. This is what is meant by ‘Artist. -page 420