Status Updates From The Making of Americans (Da...

I’ll get back to work sometime in the morning or afternoon hopefully :o

Huh. I guess we’ve really gotten this far

And on the 29th day(30th? I really wish they specified dates and not just “x days ago”. Sometimes it gets ridiculous like “xxx days ago”), I got to page 862.

A very unexpected event happened a few pages earlier on p.697: what I’m 99% sure of was the first presence of a ? mark!!!

This is a weird case where, after getting this far, I’m wondering to myself: “how did we get this far?” lol. I mean, I’m surprised. Like, how did this many pages happen? It’s not exhaustion resulting from long events. It’s just a “whoa.” Like having a [book] hangover but the party is still happening…..
And you’re still down to party…

Still working away at it

I’m feeling surprisingly angry. Angry that she had to wait more than ten years to be able to publish this. I’m angry For her.

“He was of the kind of men and women who, in the end, to every one, have been as if they had been a failure.”

“As I was saying those having in them independent dependent being have in them attacking as their natural way of winning fighting, as their natural way of winning in loving. As I was saying those having in them dependent independent being have in them resisting as their natural way of winning fighting, have resisting as their natural way of winning in loving.”

(436) there’s so much I’d want to write and say about this so far but status character limits be damned.

(386) I can’t help but kinda laugh how, this section is supposed to be about a character, and is titled after said character, but we have to go through 114 pages of preparation and introspection first 😆 Stein gives no f***s.

(366) “Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. Everybody has their own being in them. Every one is a kind of men and
women.”

(334)

(303)

“It is very interesting that every one has in them their kind of stupid being. It is very important to know it in each one which part in them, which kind of feeling in them is connected with stupid being in them.”

“Often the meekness of the patient submission of the dependent side of the dependent independent kind of them seems like the sensitive scared yielding of the dependent side of the independent dependent kind of them.”