Status Updates From The Spectators

Part Two:
“The nightingales are sobbing in
The orchards of our mothers,
And hearts that we broke long ago
Have long been breaking others…”
-W. H. Auden

“The ghost that runs after you,
my brother, is more beautiful than you;
why do you not give him your
flesh and your bones”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

“The past is a forgotten language, and every photograph a glyph: the only meaning is in the suggestion that there was once any meaning at all”

"Well nobody’s trying to be anything out in California,"… "So you will fit right in." (pg. 296)

man this book is so cold to me like flippantly depressing like it doesn’t even care about my feelings yk? and it’s just hitting me how the tone of cel’s chapters feel so much more light hearted because she’s not so weighed down by life in general yet. stakes raise with age. type shit

“It was a time of mass conversion. Young people’s sense of immortality is widely thought incorrigible, but this doesn’t match with my notes — another footnote for the anthropologists, who are, after all, are our eulogists.” (pg 215 - 16)

“Sex was a hand cuffed lightly around a single bony finger, a calyx of supplication as futile and fleeting as love itself.” (pg 217)

"She almost wishes she still had it — though as a child she hadn’t liked to touch it. She regarded it as necessary and private in a way just short of ugly" (pg 175)

“‘Identify basically as a person. Gotcha.’” (125)

“‘Hi,’ he says.
‘Hi,’ Cel adds, because this seems to be what’s being said.” (128)

umm i LOLed