Status Updates From Melancolia della resistenza

* A note I stuck on p. 109, verbatim: "I think Valuska is a very interesting character, not only because of how his internal life is rendered, but because of how richly varied he was regarded by others."

* Krasznahorkai remains surprisingly hilarious--esp when u least expect hilarity.

* Have to stop for now as the narrator is forcing me to read music theory and history and it's VERY uninteresting. Another break ig.

[P]eople were liable to detect traces of an equally passionate drift towards chaos, and —quite rightly—suspect that the powers unleashed, instead of protecting that which was irrecoverably dead and buried, would smash it to pieces in the good cause of replacing the featureless boredom of their selfish lives with 'the elevating passion of communal action.'