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“I don’t like what I just wrote—but I’m duty-bound to accept the whole section because it happened to me…I obey myself blindly.”
My new motto for writing moving forward.

Nearly wept just 10 pages in. This is going to be an issue

I take back everything bad I had previously said about this book

Jesus Christ, 200 pages of this girl complaining about feeling awkward and out of place. Real, but damn! get a grip

This is an unexpectedly very comedic story. I am having the time of my life so far

“Visible racial differences, Shockley writes, were evolution’s way of letting us know who had a diminished social capacity… But! of course, Shockley reassured readers that he was not racist. ‘Studies like mine… are not racist. They are motivated by concern for the feelings of all involved—not by fear and hate.’” What a crazy claim to then defend by saying, “but I’m not racist” lmao

I picked this up on a whim and skimmed to a random page whereupon I read the poem “Obit.” My jaw actually fell the floor. Seriously. Wtf?? Robert Lowell, where have you been all my life?