Status Updates From De Sympathisant (Dutch edit...

I gave up on the audio and will just read the book. The narrator sounded like he had marbles in his mouth and he needed to swallow pooling saliva. Not good.

“So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was dead” (71).

“the half dozen who went to sleep in a crowded, freezing room in Terre Haute with a charcoal brazier for heat and never woke up, born to permanent darkness on an invisible cloud of carbon monoxide” (71).

“And I was thankful, truly! But I was also one of those unfortunate cases who could not help but wonder whether my need for American charity was due to my having first been the recipient of American aid” (62).