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i wish i had as much luck compelling other people to participate in my nonsense/scams as my best friend pavel ivanovich chichikov

hey THIS HAPPENED TO ME much as the poet homeless keeps bringing up pontius pilate and everyone thinks he's insane, i kept bringing up what deuteronomy says about false prophets (they should die) and they reported me to the assistant dean of student support services. my first mistake was ever supposing deuteronomy is not relevant in our time.

how many books of the odyssey do i have to read until my existential problems go away and i can be happy? are there even that many books of the odyssey?

wearing a skirt makes me feel like a few lines from a beautiful poem too

what is the point of shadows anyway?

ἀλλ᾽ αἰὲν ἔχω κακά he is such a crybaby

ἀλλ᾽ ἀποχάζεο βόθρου someone says this in the wind up bird chronicle

"σοὶ δέ τις ἐν στήθεσσιν ἀκήλητος νόος ἐστίν" omg καὶ μοὶ ἀκήλητος νόος ἐστίν this is very difficult

salman rushdie's editor should hire an engineer to build a machine that monitors salman rushdie's word count when he is writing a book and knocks him unconscious with a baseball bat if he goes over 400 pages. if he regains consciousness and tries to write more, it should knock him out again.

i am perhaps more confused than i was 300 pages ago but like not in a fun way

it's like a weird dream

i did not expect this book to have the only one bed trope

so far i personally do not think this book is blasphemous but i understand how someone else got that impression (the character named after the angel gabriel is extremely promiscuous and eats pork)

i don't like this very much but my professor told me to read it so there you are.

i am obsessed with how the narrator talks about the protagonist as a baby and refers to him even then as "mr. biswas."

i would like to once again retract my most recent statement on the character bunny ("i am forced to have a certain amount of appreciation for him"). i actually have no appreciation for him, i hate him, and i am feeling super vindicated right now. and also unsure why this book has 250 more pages.

i would like to partially retract my previous statement ("i hate bunny. i can't wait for him to die. that guy is the worst"). i am forced to have a certain amount of appreciation for him because i, too, have at times forgotten that ancient greek doesn't have the ablative case and latin doesn't have the aorist tense.

it's raining a lot :( but there's a big pile of snow left behind by the snowplow outside my house and that's not going to melt so i guess i can finish this whenever i want

i took a walk in the snow and i found this book in a little free library. now i have to finish it before the snow melts. it's going to rain tomorrow evening wish me luck

one feels that he was a man with a six-point plan for becoming a saint, taking in the papacy along the way

as has so far proved the case in christian history, apocalypse was postponed and everyday life took over

human societies are based on the human tendency to want things, and are geared to satisfying those wants: possessions or facilities to bring ease and personal satisfaction. the results are frequently disappointing, and always terminate in the embarrassing non sequitur of death lol

i like the part where plato implies his ideal city sucks because he doesn't actually know what he's talking about

"i don't like to be touched," she said. "i know," hephaestus replied. "it's one of a thousand things i love about you." "but you're touching me, when you know i don't like it." "because i want to be the one whose touch you like."
I AM GOING TO MURDER THIS MAN WITH MY BARE HANDS

:(

i really don't care for mariam's husband and i think she should hit him with a car

hey they're reading the oresteia in this book that isn't the oresteia

actually, all of the female characters just serve whatever purpose the narrative needs them to serve (except for kyunghee)

this book is so well-written it's addictive. increasingly it feels like the protagonist sunja who the book, i think, is meant to be based around is just serving whatever purpose the narrative needs her to fill instead of having a real personality.