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“ This steakhouse owner-whose end-of-week sales reports probably constituted at least 90 percent meat sales-hadn't been asking me what 'I knew about me’! He'd asked me 'WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MEAT?' And I, like some half-crazed, suicidal idiot-savant kamikaze pilot, had asked him to repeat the question, pondered it thoughtfully, then proudly replied ,Next to nothing!'
It was not my finest hour. “

“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.”
See, I recognize the words yet I feel like the sentence shouldn’t exist
How does one even come up with such metaphors

“Clean work!” Even Ratatouille ripped off this poor man😭😭

He’s summering in Cherbourg ughh Mr Bourdain do you know of the umbrellas mr Bourdain do you

Of fucking curse the Americans and British were the only two countries vetoing the UN from banning the apartheid in South Africa 🫩🫩

The Nazis kept records, and that's what it comes down to. Holocaust victims count because Hitler counted them.
For the atrocities done against other people, there are no numbers, only guesses. It's harder to be horrified by a guess. When Belgium was plundering Angola and the Congo, noone counted the black people they slaughtered. How many people died harvesting rubber in the Congo? In its gold and diamond mines?

What’s with millennials and their Beyonce obsessions
Like why did he think using her as an allegory in this book would be a good idea

Une complicité me liait à ma mère. Histoires de mal au ventre men-suel, de soutien-gorge à choisir, de produits de beauté. Elle m'emmenait faire des achats à Rouen, rue du Gros-Horloge, et manger des gâteaux chez Périer, avec une petite fourchette. Elle cherchait à employer mes mots, flirt, être un crack, etc. On n'avait pas besoin de lui.
(…) J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire.

Amal Clooney namedrop aka the only druze that has ever existed

ما في طايفة مش عامليتلو عقدة للاخ سامر

Reading this in french was an interesting choice 🫩

The Prime Minister of Lebanon, Shafiq al Wazzan, appeared on television. He exploded: "What more do they want? We've done what they've asked. The PLO has agreed to all the terms. What do they want? There is only one thing left and that is for them to kill us all. Let them kill us all. We can do no more. Enough, enough." There was no pleading in his voice, no sadness, only a bottomless anger.

It is easy here in Beirut to look at every passing stranger and see the face of a potential murderer. Those throat-cutters, those who rose in the dark of the night, who put their pitiless hands around the necks of women and infants and cut them, who are they? Which ones?
Yet it is when I look at my own face in the mirror that I am most frightened. Is mine the face of one of the damned?

“But as the Israeli attacks increased in ferocity and brutality, and as it became less clear that the Israelis were only after the PLO and not Beirut itself, as more people died and more buildings collapsed, there was a steady diminishing of the criticism. People increasingly identified with the fighters holding off the Israelis.”

About the socio economic differences in the two Beiruts :
“Is this what it is all about? One wanted to ask those who have defended this vision of history. Is this the Christian heritage? The Garden of Gethsemane and Golgotha-where are their traces to be found in this citadel to the bourgeois spirit? Is this what thousands of people have died for? Sparkling shopping arcades and expensive restaurants?”

Big lol at the translation of specific lebanese terms used during times of crisis

Started this in Paris so I’m logging it a bit late :D

« And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is malignant in the body of America— then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine »

HE’S IN BEIRUT SAYING THE WOMEN ARE BOLD AND LIBERATED LETS FUCKING GOOW

He’s in Mecca describing everything soo beautifully and the only thing he can bond over with the non english speakers there is Muhammad Ali 😭😭😭

Him being besties with Muhammad Ali makes sense but God how small was that community why does everyone know everyone

« He was ranting about what a "divisive demagogue" and what a "reverse racint" I was, I wan racking my head, to spear that fool, finally I held up my hand, and he stopped
"Do you know what white racists call black Ph.D'a?" He said something like,
"I believe that I happen not to be aware of that" you know, one of thea ultra-proper talking Negroes, And I laid the word down on him, loud!
"N*****!" »

« "I Have a Dream" speeches? The black masses in America were-and still are-living in a nightmare. »
Unprompted shots fired at Martin Luther King halfway through the book 😭😭😭

“My opponent flailed the air about the Ethiopians throwing rocks and spears at Italian airplanes, "proving" that compulsory military training was needed. I said the Ethiopians' black flesh had been spattered against trees by bombs the Pope in Rome had blessed, and the Ethiopians would have thrown even their bare bodies at the airplanes because they had seen that they were fighting the devil incarnate.”

“Seek peace but if anyone attacks you, we do not teach you to turn the other cheek.” Lolol

Fucking hell this man is in a CULT

Brother Malcolm I dont know how many “it was a different time” I still have in me 🫩

He’s making jokes about sitting on the back of the bus😭😭😭

“There was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as an animal come from the forest, drawn by the fire. He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground.“

Somehow this is the most important book to read right now - unbelievably modern