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In hell on family vacation, I hate Vegas so much and I hate that my parents are the type of people who love Vegas, my only salvation is reading about a couple generations of a family each of which hates spending time with the generation preceding

"The war is no less atrocious for being only a simulacrum. ... What no longer exists is the adversity of the adversaries, the reality of antagonistic causes, the ideological seriousness of war. And also the reality of victory or defeat, war being a process that triumphs well beyond these
appearances."

Not the freshman boy Israel-Palestine debate… on god

This book is so expansive and beautiful

Every time this book is about to lose me it goes on a digression that makes me laugh. But (and this is a sign of the changing times) I can’t get that into books that are about subjugating nature, as titillating as that may be

Oh my god this is EVERYTHING

Oh my god LMAO

This is so white (non-derogatory)

Predictable

Who even are these stories for…

Too contemporary. Getting pissed

Mr. Baudrillard is cooking David Lynch rn

Customary WMAF story

It really helps that Stoner isn’t a dumbass and he’s quite reserved. Sometimes his passivity makes you really mad but other times it makes you really glad he’s dependable and not going to careen the plot way into the nether world

This guy just has the worst luck in the world

I kinda don’t get why tf she married him. Like she doesn’t seem to like him that much and her parents don’t like him. Like she could’ve rejected him

People used to keep LETTERS… what a throwback

This was crazy though. The most harrowing account of a cursed sleep-deprived overnight bus journey I’ve ever read

What the fuck is going on… I am bewildered

Oh shiet. TIMELINE SLIPPAGE??

This is such a correct characterization of New Yorkers lol

Omg classic Susan Choi moment — appearance of a ghost

Every Asian American writer seems to need to Orientalize the Motherland at least once

So be cheery my lads! May your hearts never fail! While the bold harpooner is striking the whale!

Downright comedic

“Paul thought that he would stop thinking about himself and focus on Erin, but instead, almost reflexively, as a method of therapy, began thinking about suicide.” — how is he doing this dude. It’s like he’s not even trying. Omg the next half of the sentence is EVEN BETTER LMFAO HOW

“certain it was his head was
phrenologically an excellent one. … Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.” deeply unserious book

so so so so so inspiring

Sorry GJ already I can tell she’s better at writing ab her mother

Procrastinating on my translation so I picked thjs up….. FUCKKKKK…. It’s so romantic