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“Staring at screens is perhaps unavoidable, but the two-dimensional world makes little sense unless we can draw upon a mental armory that we have developed somewhere else. When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework. To have such a framework requires more concepts, and having more concepts requires reading.”

Metamorphosis - sadness and the feeling of losing controls linger. It’s as if nothing or no creature even matters if they don’t serve a purpose.

It started off so good and now I am praying it would be ok…I don’t particularly like the style where there’s a lot of inner thoughts written out, especially coming from teenagers. It does seem like a very intentional efforts to keep dropping sentences here and there that try to be witty. But it’s getting tiring.

“Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies; they made a kind of dialect.”

好多年来，我曾有过一个“良好”的愿望：我对每个人都好，也希望每个人对我都好。只望有誉，不能有毁。最近我恍然大悟，那是根本不可能的。如果真有一个人，人人都说他好，这个人很可能是一个极端圆滑的人，圆滑到琉璃球又能长上脚的程度。

「木耳」： ‘‘也許一旦真正投入到無限的自由之中時，得到的反而不會是什麼’無限的自由’，而是縮手縮腳和無所適從吧。‘’

「古貝」 少女們的故事 可可愛愛

「我家最近年代的一隻貓」： 家在哪裡？沒有根基的地方 家人在的地方就是家 就像那隻黃貓 走過任何地方 仍會回到喝水的地方 可是那虛無飄渺遊蕩的心情 人貓也一樣

I like the history and background but I can’t believe it quotes Kayne West to state a point in one of the sections.

This is prob one of the best books I’ve read in a while. I am so invested in the stories that I almost cried at the end of each chapter.