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Really attentive writing that flows with surprising ease. American Manifest Destiny/go west/rampant capitalism vs. young man from Boston who just wants to find himself. Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby but make it evil settler-colonialism

Picking up the dusty tomes at my bedside

Chapter 4. Grail Temple

Particularly interesting is the propulsion to godlike status of Wagner in these fin-de-sciècle artistic movements. They created a fictional image of who this man was and his supposed mystical powers over emotion and music. Those Parisians were wacko!

Kinda crazy butterfly effect that the Chicago World’s Fair resulted in, almost 120 years later, Take It Off by Kesha

“Villager with a blind spot for the macabre” is a crazy read

I think when I first read this my reading comprehension was just SO bad and I’m glad I’m reading this again after rehabbing my comprehension skills this last year. Bonus experience with my connection to Chicago! Love this city down

What I’m lovingggg about o’farrell’s writing is the efficiency of her exposition. Finding out Agnes is pregante because her stepmother couldn’t find her menstrual pads! Live!

“The drama leads us to wonder whether there is any moral world order at all, and to what extent moral judgements make sense”

Very curious info about the genesis of part 2…being purposefully posthumously published as the masses really wanted to know how it ended, yet it’s critically regarded as inferior to the first part - seemingly because Goethe did not have time to edit as ferosciously as he did with part 1. The summaries of the scenes are interesting but mean nothing to me!

Summer beach read that summer was too short for

Just logging all of my books I’m halfway done with

This introduction is fascinating! It’s really setting up the hugeee piece of literature that is Faust. I had no idea that Goethe wrote this for all people. It’s been completely restricted to the German PhD students! Love him he seemed fierce