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I like this part about gardening

FIVE??

I’m worried this is making me homophobic

Ladies what are we worried about, johan would LOVE a third

Where’s this going…

“What was the worth of happiness that left behind a crater thrice the size of its impact” oh!

The pear is a metaphor

Spoilers for Brothers Karamazov!

“You must stick to earth, always, you must love
another man or woman, a human lover whose farts occasionally punctuate the silence of your bedroom in the morning and who now and then has bad moods that must be catered to.”

“You have been writing a journal for the past ten years, and every else has been composing a resume.”

This far in and he can still make me wretch. What a treatment to the power of a good writer

“When a cute girl tells you she’s selfish, you better be listening” very true

“I need to bring you back to my first date with iris” in the last 5 pages is DIABOLICAL

They WOULD be composters (I compost too)

Feels like this was written by a man

Lowkey enjoying this book way more than I thought I would…

“What even constitutes acceptable romantic human interactions in this era” well

“Poets and the religious are wont to argue that if an individual compares the very considerable time he is slated to spend dead with the relatively brief time allows him to strut and fret in this world, he might well find reason for viewing all of this life as a very hateful okay of very short span, every second of which should fill him with anxiety about what is used up” Erving Goffman SHUT UP

“They were dressed in skins sewn with the ligaments of beasts” girl why’d you say it like it’s weird thats actually deeply normal but ur acting like it belongs in the category with the ear necklaces

People keep going “have you gotten to the scalping part yet?” What could you MEAN the scalping “part”

OH HE GOES THERE FOF HIS HEALTH

I think I’m not the target audience for this book

LIKE THE HEAD OF A GREAT RED PHALLUS??

“Nono I can use the n word haven’t you heard of free indirect discourse” cormac McCarthy, I imagine

Hey what

This book is kind of a downer

“Did she get it out of Lady Chatterley?” PLEASE women have a rich inner life that goes way beyond D.H. Lawrence and also if she did that would be hilarious

“He had the expression of one tempted by recklessness. She wanted to cry ‘Oh look!’ And point to something, a shooting star, the marks of the stigmata blossoming suddenly in her palms.”

“Sex at the edge of abuse is banal” okkkk say more

THE LITTLE SAINT