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Rereading in memoriam of one of my favourite writers ever 💫

I first discovered Atticus in 2019 and this was the first of his books that I read and I immediately fell in love. Now, 7 years later, coming back to these words, they don’t strike me as the world’s best poetry anymore, but they do give me a sense of coming home and familiarity that I truly cherish. (also yes I do still absolutely love quite a few of them!)

Race tegen de klok maar wel een leuke race

Veel te lang geleden dat ik nog eens Nederlandstalige literatuur heb gelezen… m’n hartje wordt er nu al blij van :))

“God, I’m so gay” same girl same

Always need an emotional support queer audiobook to get through my days :)

It’s about time I’m finally reading this one (I am properly hooked, holy damn)

“To exist is to live and to also break”

“these cocks were everywhere” - what the hell is going on in these texts??

“as if a giant cucumber had spread itself over all the roses and carnations in the garden and choked them to death”

“in order to become the phoenix, you must accept the ash”

Ik wil niet meer… Peredonov mag echt heel ver uit m’n buurt blijven

“Poets at first are all looked upon as mad.”

“The world is a stage and we all strut upon it.”

“How couldst thou have knowledge that he would not change his mind and return?

For he was in his coffin, sir, whence there is no returning nor change of mind.”

“to fail is to fly”

“No one tells you
the way you put
yourself
back together again.”

“Gabby spends a lot of time interacting with homosexuals” same girl, same

“kids, use clean, disposable needles”

Ik ga eerlijk zijn: ik snap de critici ergens wel die dit (zeker in vertaling) geen poëzie noemen, I mean it’s good text but not great poetry

Boek 2 van de blok inhaallijst!

“How are you going to meet partners—for sex or for love?” Good question pls tell me

“By insulting him, I indirectly insulted myself, and, sad though it is to admit it, I knew this to be the case at the time. I was driven to it by an irresistible desire to belong to the "normal" world, to avoid paying whatever the cost was of being excluded from that world. It was probably also a way of lying to myself as much as I was lying to others, an attempt at a kind of exorcism.”

Eerste obstakel van de blok: leeswerk inhalen

“If we women did not love you for your defects, where would you all be?” You tell him queen!!!

“What a horrible way for a man to die!” Duuuude, don’t go acting all innocent now

‘I hope it is not about myself. I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.'

Even voor de duidelijkheid: mijn versie is echt 100 pagina’s minder dan deze random versie die goodreads me gegeven heeft dus eiglk zit ik al veel verder (want ja ik word sad van dit percentage dat dus totaal niet klopt)

Ik ben geen enkele van al deze namen aan het registreren

In ga dit effectief nog uit krijgen tegen de les morgen, crazy