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- there was something on the ocean's edge that made my marrow freeze
- a north pacific drilling barge split right down its spleen / was billowing fire and sooty smoke and coming straight for me
- u gambled with a chaos / whose cards u thought u knew / u won a hundred million tonnes / but now it seems u lose!

i love the mix of mythical/historical references - thor, poseidon, al-jazari

as i sat upon the prow the next thing came to pass

- its body burst upon the deck; its death seemed no great loss, it looked as old as time itself (i love how this seemed to have ended at the third line for impact and then comes back to finish it with); it was just an albatross
- "the fishermen all stared at me and spoke in ancient tongue; archaic and foreboding words berated what i'd done" - the callback!

the drowsy world of autumn of overripe excess was changing right before his eyes to hoary abjectness (WOAH)

its the way he literally CAN afford therapy he just chooses to spend his money on fuckass diets

the idea that people would watch the sun rise and set and had no idea why and tried their hardest to figure out why is so humbling. the fact that i exist today and that all this history precedes me is one that has been on mind since i started this book yesterday

its incredible i feel sick to my stomach how is this happening????

they reached such a state of intimacy that later without realising it they were whispering to each other

altough (many people) do not follow (jp) in striving towards utopia they use his utopian vision to look upon the functioning reality of everyday indian politics with scorn and despair. the paradoxical consequence of the idealist is furtherance of cynicism.

(ambedkar) realised this much: no individual, no caste or community, no religious group could flourish in india without constructing some kind of relationship to tradition, some narrative of selfhood compatible with india's quest for its proper self, some foothold in the past to stabilise its presence in the future

rabindranath:
• experience...has led me to dread not so much evil itself as tyrannical attempts to create goodness
• tagore, almost alone in his time, insisted...that the greatest obstacle to be found on each of them was the slave mentality that characterised nationalism. that was his contribution to the indian idea of freedom.

rabindranath: whatever weakness we cherish in our society will become the source of danger in politics

7.1
the world has become internationalised. production...markets...transport is international. only men's ideas continue to be governed by a dogma which has no real meaning.

belated happy fathers day

made a full fledged playlist that im listenign to rn and a pinterest board already like its that serious

so obsessed with this book n the characters n the world

this book is making me giddy

its been so long since ive had to make myself stop reading a book omg

reading for class <3

shuddering