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"You’ve done everything you needed to do, and there’s no sense in rehashing it. All you can do now is wait for the race."

Two days after grad

KINIKILIG AQOH POTA

On to Vol 3 ... 🫣

Juicy spicy

Shopping by Faith Shearin:

"Nearly everyone we loved was alive and we
were in love but we liked wanting. Nothing
was ever as nice when we brought it home.
The objects in stores looked best in stores.
The stores were possible futures and, young
and poor, we went shopping. It was nice
then: we didn't know we already had everything."

Luv Booksale and its abundance of agri/food lit

Mr. Murakami is ramblingggg. I dont mind much, although i only ever want to read it when resting halfway through my cycling ride because it's somehow relatable. Otherwise it is painful to read D^: sowie

"...he also kept remembering Napoleon with his little white hands, all smugness, and now being treated with affection and respect by the Emperor Alexander. What were all those torn-off legs and arms for, and why had those men been killed?" (p. 451)

Notable: The Saint by V.S. Pritchett

"Whatever the direction of his thoughts he kept coming back to the same unanswerable but inescapable questions. It was as if the working of his head had stripped the main screw that held his life together. The screw wouldn't go in or come out; it just turned without biting in on anything, always in the same hole, and he couldn't stop it turning." (p. 374)

Excuse me? So good ??

The chapter about walking is inspiring, but i disagree that it's a luxury accessible to everyone. Walking in my neighborhood, i doubt i'll ever achieve stillness. Catcallers, horrible sidewalks, lack of nature...

Starting to think i have to be a straight white guy to be able to achieve stillness

"No one is alone, in suffering or in joy. Down the street, across the ocean, in another language, someone else is experiencing nearly the exact same thing. It has always been and always will be thus." (p. 160)

"Wouldn't it be nice if everything was as clear-cut and straightforward as it seems to Marie? Wouldn't it be nice if we know where to turn to for help in this life and what to expect when it's over, beyond the grave?"
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"No, nothing is certain, nothing but the nothingness of all that we can understand, and the splendour of something we can't understand, but we know to be infinitely important!"

p. 313

On to Vol 2!!

😔😔😔😔✊️

"There was so much that he wanted to have done, and so much regretted not doing, that he seemed to think it had really happened like that. Well, maybe it had. Who could tell in all that confusion what had happened and what hadn't?" (p. 209)

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Pierre's arousal tho 😔 ......so funneh

"...I examine the faces of the sleeping dogs beside me, the improbable mystery of their existence, the short lives they live with an intensity unbearable to us. I have turned to them for their ancient language not my own, being quite willing to give up my language that so easily forgets the world outside itself." (p. 81)

"If everybody fought for nothing but his own convictions, there wouldn't be any wars." (p. 27)
Part I 🥺 luv it already

...I felt very close then to understanding
the mystery; it seemed to me that I almost knew
what it meant to be alive, as if my life had swelled
to some high moment of response, as if I could
reach out and touch the season, as if I were inside
its body, surrounded by sweet pulp and juice,
shimmering veins and ripened skin. (p. 44)

Luv