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Queria ter gostado...

que tenebroso esse último conto!

tem sido uma leitura serena e aconchegante, precisava de algo assim para me recuperar

que pedrada

Clarice ressoa tanto comigo.

Esse livro brinca com a tua imaginação de um jeito.

que leitura gostosa

que escrita linda

— letter from a region in my mind:

essa segunda parte é densa, mas muito poderosa

“the power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions. So every attempt is made to cut that black man down—not only was made yesterday but is made today. Who, then, is to say with authority where the root of so much anguish and evil lies?”

“We had the liquor, the chicken, the music, and each other, and had no need to pretend to be what we were not. This is the freedom that one hears in some gospel songs, for example, and in jazz. In all jazz, and especially in the blues, there is something tart and ironic, authoritative and double-edged.”

eu suspiro por essa escrita encantadora.

“I was also able to see that the principles governing the rites and customs of the churches in which I grew up did not differ from the principles governing the rites and customs of other churches, white. The principles were Blindness, Loneliness, and Terror, the first principle necessarily and actively cultivated in order to deny the two others.”