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KIT You remind me of the uses of university education.

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It’s so readable. I’m not even making that many annotations because it’s just flowing. 5 stars so far.

Act 1 - 5 stars

And Angela was involved in giving out beer! She could’ve laced the glass. Don’t know how she got that particular glass to Amyas, because no one has ever mentioned how he got that glass, only that Caroline took him the bottle. Bit weird that they keep track more of the bottle than the glass when they know that the glass had the poison in???

It was Angela. Meredith’s recount says the window was left open and he heard noises. He thought it was a cat but never saw one. He saw Miss Williams who sad Angela was missing. Angela took the poison. Caroline covered for her.

Interesting…how they keep insisting that everyone is full of life. The women are all full of life, all so alive. Amyras was so alive, so in love with life that he couldn’t have killed himself…

I KNEW THERE WAS AN AFFAIR. There’s always an affair. But this has come to light so early that I don’t think Philip’s the killer anymore. He has motive: either he intended to kill Amyras because he hated that he had Caroline and messed around with Elsa. Or he intended to kill Caroline. But he’s only the first to get a motive. We need more convincing suspects first.

Read ‘The Murders in Rue Morgue’, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, and ‘The Purloined Letter’.

Current suspicions…
Philip. I think he had a thing for Caroline.
The governess. She would lose her job when Amyras sent Angela to school.
I also think that someone intended to poison Caroline by putting it in the glass. Or, Angela did it and Caroline covered for her.

‘The Murders in Rue Morgue’ - The we sallied forth into the streets, arm in arm, continuing the topics of the day, or roaming far and wide until a late hour, seeking, amid the wild lights and shadows of the populous city [Paris], that infinity of mental excitement which quiet observation can afford.’

Antigone - 4 ⭐️

End of Book 1. It’s pretty good and much more accessible than I expected. There’s some elegies that I find funny but I’m not sure if they’re supposed to be - though the one about burning her hair off with a curling iron and having to wear a wig surely is. I liked Dipsas’ relationship advice in 1.8 and Ovid’s reaction, that was pretty funny.

Why are the fairies at an orgy??!! I thought this was a kids’ book??

I cannot with St John. He is so frickin irritating. Possessive boyfriend but not even a boyfriend??? What is up with that??

‘I love you, and know you prefer me. It is not despair of success that keeps me dumb. If I offered my heart, I believe you would accept it. But that heart is already laid on a sacred altar: the fire is arranged round it. It will soon be no more than a sacrifice consumed.’

‘Who in the world cares for you? Who will be injured by what you do?’
Still indomitable was the reply: ‘I care for myself.’

‘Do you doubt me, Jane?’
‘Entirely.’
‘You have no faith in me?’
‘Not a whit.’

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‘I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.’

Shit the bed.

Not as literary as I was expecting; I thought it was going to do something cool stylistically but it hadn’t so far. Thinly veiled allegory for an abusive relationship. But readable. Sitting at 4 stars so far.