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reading the original Spanish version 🫠

This was the key to flourishing in graduate school. You could do anything if you were delusional.

so real 😭

would anyone be open to a buddy read of proust's in search of lost time :33

the writing and plot is kind of giving juvenile fiction

"The wind bit, the sun hid, and on the first day of class, when she ought to have been lecturing undergraduates about the dangers of using the Cartesian severance spell to revise without pee breaks, Alice Law set out to rescue her advisor’s soul from the Eight Courts of Hell."

never in my life did I think I would see these words used together in quite this fashion 💀

it's giving dazai osamu

"I toyed with the idea of being a botanist and studying the wild grasses in Africa or the South American rainforests..."

Sylvia Plath's son was a biologist. Like Sylvia Plath, he also died of suicide.

Her daughter is, like her, also a poet.

The more I learn about her history the more tragic it gets 😭😭

dnf at ch 3 :/

getting back on the reading grind 🙏

"But when the intellect is stained and polluted by sin,
it can only be cleansed by the love of the Name.
Virtue and vice do not come by mere words; actions repeated,
over and over again, are engraved on the soul.
You shall harvest what you plant."

almost done with finals dobby is almost a free elf ⛓️🥀🥀

nothing exfoliates quite like the hard water at a college dorm

exam so bad im checking if there's a curve before I even take it 💔💔

"Novels like Murakami Haruki, Raymond Carver, Han Kang"

murakami and han kang mentioned 🔥🔥

on all your souls im going to lock in and catch up on all my buddy reads this weekend 🔥🔥

if you see me edit my reading goal...no you didn't

to do homework, or to sleep, that is the question 🥀

reading bl to cope with academic stress 🤓

also this is so peak I think I can hear my heart breaking 🥀🥀

idk why but my grammar app suddenly turned french. i typed acetaminophen and it went "did you mean acétaminophène? 😃🥐"

no, no i did not.

me after taking the maximum courseload possible: why do I have so much homework 💔💔💔

my parents are scolding me in our family gc and I'm exclusively replying with quotes from the Gita or the Bible. this is peak ragebait lmao 10/10 recommend

what even is the kinsey scale 💀

the amount of times ive put tgcf on hold is actually embarrassing, but i just don't have the motivation to read trauma 💔

probably not the best book to read right after human acts but oh well

never thought id say this but peak introduction 🔥🔥

on everyone's souls im finishing this by the weekend 🔥

"and then all is madness---the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things."