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Geography so rich I want to gobble Tolkien up

I’m not reading this on a kindle I’m too lazy to search for this edition paperback

Currently battering my head with this book because the prince is so prone to self mutilation and impossible to read without ripping my hair out

“If this was lost, let us all be lost always.”

Enamored with Zooey and Bessie’s tub conversation—so far lasting over thirty pages. I haven’t finished it yet. I’m half hoping it’s the entirety of the second part.

I am so unfamiliar with Shakespeare wow

It’s about time

“Sudden proliferation of grace. It probably just makes everything worse. Which in a way it does, worse, more complicated. Tethering him down into the world, barring the emergency exits. Stay and suffer. I promise. Of course.”

“Margaret is reminded of the way she felt when she first met Ivan: as if life had slipped free of its netting. As if the netting itself had all along been an illusion, nothing real. An idea, which could not contain or describe the borderless all-enveloping reality of life” (p. 183).

At last…