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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

“Behind him was a woman around the same age as my grandmother. She lived in the neighborhood and came here every day. It was just an excuse to get out of the house, she told me.” I’m gonna THROW UP

“Cobwebs revealed their presence on sheds and walls where none had ever been observed till brought out into visibility by the crystallizing atmosphere, hanging like loops of white worsted from salient points of the out-houses, posts, and gates”

“The night came in, and took up its place there, unconcerned and indifferent; the night which had already swallowed up his happiness, and was now digesting it listlessly; and was ready to swallow up the happiness of a thousand other people with as little disturbance or change of mien”

“When two people are once parted- have abandoned a common domicile and a common environment- new growths I sensibly hid upward to fill each vacated place; unforeseen accidents hinder intentions, and old plans are forgotten” Thomas Hardy why would you SAY that

“Anyway, there are mountains of oedipal phobias between us”

“All around us, people were ironically doing Jell-O shots”

This would have hit so hard at age 20

Ngl this book is a slog so far bc the genre is illegible to me but “and they discussed that opinion long and earnestly, as if they could influence a mind across half the globe; but in reality they discussed it because the sentiment of love can enter into any subject and live ardently in remote phrases” really took me out.

“There’s no pressure for us to be ethnically pure, noble.”

“If we meet each other in Hell, it’s not Hell”

“We held the song’s preemptive nostalgia between us like a candle”

“Calling up psalm 22 to try to self-soothe” WHAT a way to describe Jesus on the cross. I’ve never thought of him as self soothing

“Scumbag Caesars vivisecting God”

The problem with Conrad is that he unfortunately does write some really great things like for example “a strange theory of tenacious gringo ghosts suffering in their starved and parched flesh of defiant heretics”

“The drawing room of Europe” GREAT line.