Status Updates From La muerte de Ivan Ilich y o...

“I once saw a soldier with a leg wound, whose first thoughts were of the hole in his sheepskin coat, and a calvary man who crawled out from under his horse that had just been killed and unbuckled the girths to save the saddle” (65).

"with moist almond-shaped eyes, red smiling lips, a small waxed moustache, hair done in the latest fashion, and an insipidly pretty face" pozdnyshev i KNOW what you are...

if ever i am unsure of something i will now devise to "consult the wizards" at every possible opportunity

"yes, i was a dreadful pig and imagined myself to be an angel." you and all of us buddy 😭

“there is hardly one who has not already been married ten, a hundred, or even, like don juan, a thousand times, before his wedding.“ would you say then that we’re past… the point of no return? (oh brother…)

“i thought i was a charming fellow and quite a moral man.” this is how it always starts: men having confidence.

“”what is wrong with education?”” i ask myself this every day lady…

“then he grew quiet, and not only ceased weeping but even held his breath and became all attention. it was as though he were listening not to an audible voice but the voice of his soul, to the current of thoughts arising within him.” oh wow so this is really just how it is huh.. ivan ilych you are one of the girls