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Cayleigh Stickler
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I didn't finish before I had to return the book, so I'll check it out again later!
— Apr 22, 2026 08:56PM
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Marly Holsman
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Holy hell this is so good. The poem?! Incredible.
— Apr 21, 2026 07:44AM
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Cayleigh Stickler
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I'm obsessed with this format, and there are so many layers to this that I'm reading slower than I need to be. The poem feels like it’s exploring how we never really “see” reality directly. We just see reflections, memories, and interpretations layered on top of it, and not even memory is stable because it keeps reshaping itself.
— Apr 21, 2026 06:20AM
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Cayleigh Stickler
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I literally laughed out loud (in public) at this:
"Let me state that without my notes Shade's text simply has no human reality at all since the human reality of such a poem as his (...) has to depend entirely on the reality of its author and his surroundings, attachments and so forth, a reality that only my notes can provide. ...for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word."
— Apr 21, 2026 04:43AM
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"Let me state that without my notes Shade's text simply has no human reality at all since the human reality of such a poem as his (...) has to depend entirely on the reality of its author and his surroundings, attachments and so forth, a reality that only my notes can provide. ...for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word."
