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what an enchanting collection of short stories. there is no beginning and no end, you are plunged in but the transition is easy and seamless between the world and the stories. you are left baffled and bewildered but with the air and ambition to dive in for more. truly stunning and pure

Don’t agree with the section about the gays but love. Lots of great insights.

“What it does is to find the success in certain passionate failures”
“It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of “character”

“…Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.”

“One is drawn to Camp when one realizes “sincerity” is not enough. Sincerity can be simple philistinism, intellectual narrowness.”

in the middle of a heartbreak i asked a woman at a bookstore what i should read, she stopped me from picking up a disastrously dark body horror about sapphic love. instead she recommended me this. i left the bookstore carrying a bright blue book and believing in the kindness of strangers.

also that thing has gotten better since. luv my friends and self integrity.

holy fuck

therapy passage got me af

This is exactly what i needed. it keeps surprising me everytime

Anyone else equate Mr. Ramsay to My Octopus Teacher researcher contemplating human ignorance on the ledge of the sea while pasta burns on the oven
#Darwin

“Leonard used to talk about poetry being the ash of experience but, with Marianne, it was the embers- he was creating poems and songs out of their lives while they were living them. The bottom line is that she didn’t want to live in a song, and he didn’t want to live in a marriage.”