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the exploration of pride was interesting, but the story has otherwise failed to grip me so far. might dnf

why am i getting rock climbing 101 for four pages? heaps are like porn? i had high expectations after babel, but this feels like it was written by a completely different person.

language was just difference. a thousand different ways of seeing, of moving through the world. and translation - a necessary endeavour, however futile, to move between them. // that's just what translation is, i think. that's all speaking is. listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.

violence is the only language they understand, because their system of extraction is inherently violent.

“i’m not a foreigner. i was born here.” you tell em birdie!!

you know when you can just tell you’re gonna love a book based on the first couple of sentences? this is one of those.

words and phrases you think are carved into your bones can disappear in no time.

it is hard to have faith in life when you have seen its credibility strained too often.

some definite moments of cuteness and relatability peppered in here…….

“i wondered what became of the human instinct for beauty, why it vanished so abruptly and so utterly, why our race should have fallen so totally out of sympathy with the earth.”

“real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. my nightmare was that i’d end up in some jade garden plating up someone else’s bland, bored, mushu chop-suey illusion of what food is supposed to be.”

oh this shit horny AND gay

it was, in fact, what i thought it was

please please tell me this isn’t what i think it is

this is horrific

oh ok