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now why would you EVER title your book like this.

here i was, hoping this wouldn’t turn out to be neoliberal scum despite the dedication to george kennan at the start lol

bro i am weeping rn (this always happens)

why is everything important left-handed. i understand the "shafts of light" but why the left. help. this stumps me every time.

zooey is only 25 here oh god i’m officially older than him

“he was slouched rhetorically forward” no one is doing it like him. i’m already laughing.

re-centering with zooey glass, character of all time.

finishing this up today and it occurs to me that i’ve now read 3 books this year that feature/revolve around dated mental institutions all
written within about 15 years of each other

i, too, would cease to be able to read if i tried to write my thesis about finnegan’s wake

let me elaborate on my previous update. EVIL girl holden caulfield.

girl holden caulfield 😜

easiest and most informative read in a while. my brain is clear. crops watered. sky devoid of clouds. sunny everywhere.

i hate (love) when a book from years past predicts how the US responded to covid

"but then what are stepparents for if they can't be used in little skirmishes between blood relatives?" - smoothest analogy for proxy wars i've ever read. gagged.

falling out of love with this so fortunately the final 52 pages are just his notes/bibliography lol

"in catch-22, heller deconstructs the normative assumptions of the catcher in the rye by shifting the breakdown from the subject to the rhetoric, that is, from "the catcher" to the "catch" - i am LIVID that i didn't come up with this. i read both of these books this year.

NEW KAMERON HURLEY BOOK IS A SEQUEL TO MY FAV SCI-FI OF ALL TIME AND IT'S TO BE RELEASED ON MY BIRTHDAY!!! LET'S ALL LIVE!!!

alan nadel just like me fr because his film analysis is noticeably worse/simpler than his work with novels

reading about salinger and the cold war from another source makes me feel less crazy but also i fear that me and mister nadel are just a very specific brand of crazy which understands that the only way to exhume salinger’s work these days is to throw historical context at the wall and see what sticks to salinger’s author photo

okay well when i say a book is the nuclear book of all time, that doesn't mean i actually want that to be the canonical case. it's more fun when that ISN'T the case, actually, because why are we talking about bilateralism and the end of historical narrative so frankly.

"out of this hall of mirrors i am seeking no path" SHUT UPPPPPP

i know i can be slow sometimes by why would you dampen such brilliant ideas by writing Like This. i simply do not have time for endless metaphors. please say what you mean. also in a way that’s cogent, thank you.

dirk doesn’t go to goodreads dot com so i’ve texted him that this is the nuclear book of all time and he was right to force me to read it

nadel writes like he wants you to suffer but “history is a cipher for omission, and the process of representation is never one of proportionality but of narrativity” is a bar

i want to reread the vampire armand so fucking badly right now but that's too much unemployed behavior at once so i'm punishing myself with "school books." keep me in your thoughts.

messiest main character of all time i am SHAKINGG