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this quote is probably exactly why i Never Move on from Anything Ever “How unjust it was, when people treated the actual as limiting proof of the possible! I felt that this was what I was fighting against, and always had been: the tyranny of the particular, arbitrary way that things happened to have turned out.”

This book is brilliant it’s so funny and soooo intelligent without being pretentious (I am trying to figure out why I find this book so earnestly smart when I found yellowface to be quite pretentious even though they reference similar content, maybe batuman does so in a more explained manner rather than a duhhh you should know this way), really savouring this one