Status Updates From Lehrjahre der Männlichkeit

Frédéric moreau tu es la pire personne du monde mais je ne suis pas prêt à te laisser partir 🙏🏻

“He envied pianists their talent and soldiers their scars. He longed for a dangerous illness, hoping that he might arouse her interest in this way.”

Mans really said, “I don’t have a personality, but that trauma though ✨😍🥵”

Never in my life have I so badly wanted to grab a male protagonist by the shoulders and shake him while yelling, “GET A LIFE!”

“In order to decide whether he should go to see Madame Arnoux, he tossed a coin into the air three times. Each” time the omens were favorable. Fate must’ve ordained it!”

How much do you want to bet he rigged the coin?

Delusion is one of the costliest things you can buy, and I don’t mean paying with francs.

“She looked like the woman you read about in romantic novels. He would not have wanted to add anything to her appearance, or to take anything away. His world had suddenly grown bigger. She was the point of light on which all things converged...”

13 pages in and my eyes have rolled back into my head, away from the public, which is where Flaubert should’ve kept his male gaze. Only 400 more pages to go…