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“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

TIIIINYY TIIIIMMM

Deciding to read this in french was definitely a choice

Charles Dickensindeher XDD

Most brutal time skip ever WHAATTT

Gorgeous prose gorgeous imagery we are soo back

Des réfugiés, à Calais, tentent de passer en Angleterre. Les passeurs exigent de grandes sommes. Mais rien n'arrête ces migrants, ils n'ont pas d'autre voie. On pourchasse les passeurs, comme les avorteuses il y a trente ans. On ne met pas en cause les lois qui les induisent. Et il doit bien y avoir parmi les passeurs d'immigrés, comme autrefois parmi les passeuses d'enfants, de plus réguliers que d'autres.

That character who’s only line in the book is to correct the narrator in the rudest way possible that no he isn’t english, he’s irish. And irish people speak their minds unlike the overly polite brits.

Author calling out Islamophobia in France in 1818 mmhmmm

The genesis metaphores are strong in this one

OF COURSE the creature only speaks in Shakespearean english

Narrator is actually getting his life together and i need him to keep at it

Irish moms 🤝 arab moms : taking unprescribed Valium to cope with the war

“May you be blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness that you gave to another lonely, grateful heart! My God! A whole minutes of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man’s life?”

Are they just having the same conversation over and over again?

Nothing like a good book to cleanse after the last abomination I read

Okay this is just going from bad to worse “this was the first time the shepherds had seen the Corleone stare”??? And they cowered in fear from the respect he exhumed ?? This shit is soo corny fkn save me no wonder its every incel’s favorite story

Nothing ever preps you for the ‘see how they massacred my boy’ bit huh

Senor Corleone backstory lets fucking gooww

Lolol the italian tarantella singer turned pizzaiolo. Even the italians aren’t spared from the stereotypes here😭😭

Fucking hell this author just hates women huh

SENOR CORLEONE NAAUURRR

The way i GASPED over the horse head what the hellie senor Corleone

My consumptions are influenced by one person and one person only

Soo weird to have an academic book study stuff like tiktok, vine and instagram

« Not long after the Abu Ghraib photos emerged, in fact, some porn sites began to copy them, with new websites titles Sex in War and Iraq babes. »

I think we should all shoot ourselves

Just when i was about to throw up from the torture porn bit - author brings up Abu Ghraib ! Girl we were just talking about Kim Kardashian what the hell