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there is so much pain its like toni morrison but harsher and unrelenting and Now instead of 100 years ago but what makes it worse is that this written pain is familiar
if this is autofiction idk what to say except jesus christ

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all of Taylor's novels are about grieving sexually dysfunctional academic types which i eat up but its worth pointing out... his newest is less that way so maybe evolution is happening idk

If I had a nickel for every time I saw someone using phallic imagery in a tennis context, I would have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice..

“That if the world has made up its mind about what you have to offer, if the world has decided it wants you, needs you, then it doesn’t matter how many times you mess up. What Wallace wants to know is where the limit is. When is it no longer forgivable to be so terrible? When does the time come when you’ve got to deliver on your gifts?”