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wheezing at the way Jock’s fellow secretary was like “tbh i’m shook that that dumbass kept the journal like he did without realizing it was a national security risk, that dude woulda been sacked in two seconds if anyone realized. impressive, though” and Jock wasn’t trying to skirt the rules he just Genuinely Didn’t Think About It and now we thankfully have an incredible historical diary of downing street

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this book. is a lot. it’s a lot. the vocabulary and the structure and the complexity literary-technique-wise is fabulous and amazing and superb but the subject matter. it’s like reading Crime and Punishment and being uncomfortable at how well it talks about what it talks about. and of course that too is part of the point. AUGH

this book’s structure just keeps making me want to reread Moby Dick instead of seeing whatever fresh horrors this book is gonna serve up till the bitter end, BUT WE SHALL PERSIST. Ishmael POV I’m coming for you (you sit on my desk as we speak) but not quite yet. You’ll be my reward for the horrors of third person examination of human atrocities and the webs woven between and among their perpetration

This feels so much like Moby Dick’s opening for some reason. Now I really want to read Moby Dick again. wait for me, Ishmael

spent a couple days devouring Transformers fanfiction instead, but back in the saddle again