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Just let this weird lady write about dams!!!

I’m about to be a heavenly terror about this. Fore, block me now, etc

This shit is phenomenal

She’s so smart I’m going to punch a hole in the wall

God I was a dumbass when i was 20 years old.

Today’s lesson in humility: I was supposed to read this ten years ago in college and couldn’t because the simmering paranoia Joan describes in the first few pages annoyed me so much (I was callous and self-flagellatingly idealistic). Unfortunately I now understand it quite well

She is steadily getting more naive and more focused on one typological experience of this illness as the book goes on even as she continually pays lip service to how diverse EDs are. And I am getting tireddddddd

I don’t know. I keep reading it. And me in particular not DNFing a book of essays on eating disorders suggests at least some narrow modicum of merit even though she is getting a little manic pixie with it at times.

Clarice Lispector, boldly and lyrically asking the question many a beautiful bisexual woman has asked before her and many will ask after: what if God was your toxic boyfriend

I am just sitting here wondering. How is she going to keep this shit up for another half a book.

Oh boy. Bitch this is intense

Back to my brazilian psychodrama and I would like to announce that I was right to take my eviscerating Kafka detour thank you very much. Now I grant it doesnt take a genius to note the cockroach tell but still. It would appear Clarice Lispector was as moved by the metamorphosis as I was. Cannot blame her and I still got it

Ok wtf I am crying in my cubicle. Wtf

Damn it I should have known. I should have known this would be so so sad

fine. Ugh

Do I need to reread the metamorphosis before i do this or are we in less intolerably literary territory than that

Enrolled myself today at the edith wharton school of comparing the countenances of the rich unfavorably to roast mutton

We are truly pulling zero punches here lol

Now that I think about it “Delusional Wife Guy” is a logical addition to the kurt vonnegut protagonist all star team

Is this…….the most actually pessimistic Vonnegut I’ve read? I think this might be the most actually pessimistic Vonnegut I’ve read. Jeez

She’s KILLING me with the meter!!!!!! She’s KILLING me with it!!!

I think that. An emphasis on Cycles of Violence, There’s Nothing New Under the Sun, Only Slight Variations on the Same Theme— that works best if you’re at extreme ends of the occurrence spectrum. As in. Either there’s a Central Moment where the plot is brought to bear on itself, or again and again and again *everything* is revealed as a reflection of some past or future event. Miller committed to the latter.

Rounding thru ch 16 once more. Madeline my advice to you is start running. I am coming up behind you with a hatchet. Run bitch

Hit the tonal shift in the middle and started googling which translation of the iliad is best to start with as if that’s a viable coping strategy at all

Patroclus I am afraid you are painfully dear to me

I am reading this again I do not gaf. Noting that she is really committing to the use of the epic rhythm here…I only noticed it in the last third of the book on read 1 but it’s like, kinda whenever an Important Object Symbol or Theme is introduced, those syllables line right up so cleanly. Great stuff. Also the mirroring of images in the first couple chapters and last third is. Whew! Powerful!

I have finished. Which is to say I have been gutted like a fish and left to die in the sun. Very beautiful work you have done here Madeline Miller but at what a cost it was you did it. Christ

This shit is ruining my life

she’s finally doing it!

This is just………..This is just so good