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"Anyway, Jade had a best friend growing up—she told me this—a beautiful girl, fragile. They were like sisters. She could confide in her, tell her everything under the sun—you know, the kind of friend everyone wants but never has—for the life of me, I can't remember her name. What /was/ it? Something elegant. Anyway"—she flicked ashes off her cigarette—"she was considered problematic" (248).

a 21 yr old hs senior who has a normal-aged hs junior gf okay sure okay

icl i think she killed that guy ..

i know blue alrdy acknowledged the rumor of hannah sleeping w charles but to have her add this is crazy: '"An adult with a fastidious interest in those considerably younger than him or herself cannot be completely sincere or even rational, [...] Such a preoccupation often hides something very dark."'

these cannot be the actions of high schoolers what the heck

OH HELL NAH!!!! RUMOR HAS IT HANNAH BANGED TBE BLOND-BUT-NOT-SCANDINAVIAN-BLOND BOY? OH HELL NAWHHHH

"Everyone is responsible for the page-turning tempo of his or her Life Story, [...] Even if you have your Magnificent Reason, it could still be as dull as Nebraska and that's no one's fault but your own." [...] "Spend your energies on /your/ story. Reworking it. Making it better. Increasing the scale, the depth of content," (71-2).

BLOND-BUT-NOT-SCANDINAVIAN-BLOND BOY WHAT R U DOING THROWING UR ARM AROUND UR TEACHER 😨

"[They were] acknowledged as [characters] of great sensitivity and pathos, an archetype of all that was lost and injured about [their] generation, but would be gunned down by the trigger-happy police if [they] wasn't careful, if [they] didn't come to an understanding about [themselves] and who [they were]" (70). [2/2]

"Sal Mineos were always talking in spongy voices and making comments that were as vague as the outline of an angora sweater. Their eyes weren't like everyone else's but had enlarged tear glands and extra optic nerves" (70). [1/2]

"he had blond hair, but he wasn't the sort of washed-out scandinavian blond person who desperately looked as if he need to be dyed, tinted, hand dipped in something" (67).

lmfao??? lmao????

"Bill was built like a Saguaro cactus that ultimately had gone too long without water, and his clothes—that navy jacket, blue shirt, the leather belt with a giant silver buckle portraying either the Siege of the Alamo or the Battle of Little Bighorn—looked as dried out, faded and dusty as his face did. He paced the stage, slowly, as if reveling in the imaginary clinks of his spurs;..."

doing this w new charries

the narrator sounds sm like a 1st person pov of olga kominska from the handmaid of desire .. the narration and just desc. of everyone is so indifferently rude and curt ... // ik i just started but it's rlly reminding me of the handmaid of desire in the sense that they're both lowkey satire of academia hmm

okay i'm almost home and i genuinely cannot continue rn lest i burst into fits of anger inside a silly little amtrak

"in the early 1850s, american prospectors forcefully expelled mexican, mexican american, and other latin american 'greasers' from the goldfields. [...] those who persisted in the fields or refused to pay the tax were intimidated, beaten, or killed; throughout the 1850s violent crimes against mexicans in california increased dramatically." (19)

y has no one ever told me about this how come i never Knew im distraught

OH OKAY and so when I went to sonora and literally anywhere else and was at one of those stupid mini museums or whatever they just conveniently left out everything about the mexican techniques for the gold mining okay or maybe i just can't remember i pray it's that pls memory be failing me

"indeed, the bitterness and hatred toward mexicans stimulated by the recent war in many ways intensified anglo americans' hostility toward 'mexicans' [...] horsman notes that, if anything, 'the total mexican defeat convinced the americans that their original judgment of the mexican race had been correct.'" (18)

HORSMAN????! i'm ohh omg omg im glad he's been dead for Years bc if he WASNT oh next luigi is me

ok but also thank GOD for their ridiculousness because i don't think i would like a united states that engulfs the entirety of mexico

dude i think "the firebrand racist senator from south carolina, john c. calhoun" should actually genuinely off himself because what the actually jsjdhhd man . i'm sorry idk if i should say it this way but these white people disgust me . i won't be typing out what he says i can't stand it

"historian reginald horsman argued [that], "the bitter dispute concerning the annexation of mexican territory was primarily an argument not about territory but about mexicans." "though god might ... guid[e] the americans to the conquest of mexico," horsman observed, "he had not provided a detailed plan for american rule over mexican people."" (15)

IM BAFFLED i wanna say kay why es? maybe

"advocates of the 'all mexico' position faced some formidable challenges [...] the most troubling of these [being the] incorporation of even larger numbers of non-white, non-English-speaking people into the United States" (14-15)

be so fr,, dude the Face i made while reading this oh will i make it thru without imploding

not even 5 pages in and it's kinda depressing to see what they were worried abt came true