Status Updates From Orientalismo

Reading this in the Foyles café with a flat white. I think this is what it feels like to be a performative male. I'm so sensitive and smart and different to all the other guys wow.

But actually I am dumb, so many words I don't know. Who is Euripides? You rip these? What the hell is bacchantes?

Quedé acá en marzo tbh, me terminé la primera parte de tres y no quise seguir sin poder leerla de corrido

i know these people were active in the nineteenth century but how is this even real

"Europe's effort therefore was to maintain itselt as what Valéry called 'une machine puissante,' absorbing what it could from outside Europe, converting everything to its use, intellectually and materially, keeping the Orient selectively organized (or disorganized)."