kazilo > Recent Status Updates

Just got weirdly emotional over the allusion to Plenty and Her Cornucopia that adorned Sears’ catalogues. I need sleep.

“I can’t even find a pond small enough / to drown in without being ostentatious.”

I actually laughed in Shannon Library. Wow.

“and in a sense we’re all winning / we’re alive.”

O’Hara…

“I seem to be defying fate, or am I avoiding it?”

Ok thanks O’Hara that’s just what I needed today

“More like a man / flying from something he dreads than one / who sought the thing he loved.”

I’m eating my Sbrocco’s donut I got post my enlightenment from Skipper and drinking my morning tea and honestly it’s gonna be okay. I think Wordsworth is telling me it’s gonna be okay.

“but we shall continue to be ourselves everything/continues to be possible.”

Sigh I guess

“I wish I were reeling around Paris/instead of reeling around New York/I wish I weren’t reeling at all.”
I fear the collection is starting to grow on me

“All Indians must dance, everywhere, keep on dancing.”

Of course it’s Wovoka speaking of the Ghost Dance Movement that makes me tear up. Bring me back to APUSH.

“But his dear God? who yet his glorious law / Embosoms in us /…Poor man, thou searchest round / To find our death, but missest life at hand.”

Feeling great to be part of the niche of people who will listen to This Year from Two Strangers Carry a Cake and think of Herbert’s “Vanity (I)”

“Brethren, what do you think of this?” Crazy how I’m asking the same question to this day

“Has Mr. Jefferson declared to the world, that we are inferior to the whites, both in the endowments of our bodies and of minds?” L Bozo T. Jefferson now I’m at your university

David why would you say that

“At the mention of this forthcoming dinner, my shoulders actually shook with excitement.” Help she’s just like me

Me vs getting my annotation tabs stolen by my little cousin 🫩🫩

Reading the Wikipedia page on Li He and how he “makes frequent use of inauspicious words like “aging” and “death.’” After reading “Lament That the Days Are So Short,” I can’t say that im surprised…he was really going through it

The gates are also making me think of Casco Viejo y Panama Antiguo. Panamanian Taiwanese connections are strong today

Trying to preform literary analysis but all I do is make a list of food to try. The red bean cakes remind me of a Panamanian street food. I’m hungry.

“A hundred li’s distance breeds different habits, a thousand li’s distance breeds different ways of life.” Oh wow

“Stewart has a million nicknames for me…Vasco da Gama when I get lost.” Oh my god that’s the first tolerable thing he’s said all book. I laughed.

Love when I learn an English word that I previously thought had only existed in Spanish so I have to relearn how to pronounce it. Maquillage,,, who knew?

The concept of alluding to The Pale Blue Dot and The Blue Marble. Kind of genius. I love outer space photography.

“Sadness, I think, is the object. And grief is the negative space.” Not funny

“I wonder, what is the weight of my grief if it cannot be carried by others? What is the measure?” Reading this book at a cookout and making myself feel nothing but doom and despair…okay

France down 0-4 in the second half. Ruth down 0-infinity in the last chapter. This place is tough.

Two chapters of doom and despair left

Sudden rain?? Great Gatsby…

Not Lover Man by Billie Holiday coming on just as the wedding scene starts omg

“I resolved right then to start an argument with him the moment the opportunity presented itself.” She’s just like me

“James is too self-absorbed to ever kill himself.” Oh my goodness

“Family was also a social construct.” Oh ok