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translation process so convoluted this book is less than 20 pages of actual poetry and 340 pages of forewords introductions footnotes and glosses

i thought this was going to be a drag but it's fascinating actually... i've learned. not very much about the renaissance but a lot more about aestheticism

mrs cadwallader says such out-of-pocket things half the time and the other half she's like objectively correct it's really jarring

‘what i think, dodo […] is that mr casubon was spiteful. i never did like him, and james never did. i think the corners of his mouth were dreadfully spiteful.’ SO TRUE CELIA

DING DONG CRUSTY CASUBON IS DEAD

it rather seems to me the vincy family inheritance is poor financial decision-making. sad!

mr brooke is so astoundingly incompetent. what is even happening

guess i underestimated how much great comet's prologue and russian usage of patronymics helped me remember the names of w&p characters. girl who the hell are all these middlemarchers

dorothea brooke and marya bolkonskaya would be really good friends i think

honestly really appreciate jin yong having side characters explain context and meaning every time someone starts quoting poetry. like yeah i had no idea what any of that meant thank you for anticipating that sir

mei chaofeng hiiiiiii

桃花島招女婿arc my belovedddddd it’s so SO good

hong qigong will claim to not know anything about books and then start reciting the i’ching and the laozi while explaining the philosophy behind his martial arts

guo jing is always characterised as slightly dumb and naive but kindhearted and justice-oriented and like. thats all TRUE. but also he will give some kid a concussion to steal medicine for someone else. huang rong’s committing crimes left and right and he fully enables it and participates. crazy

'that old man wanted to bite my throat. what a strange move, my martial teachers (shifu) never taught me anything like that! next time i see him, i should ask him about it thoroughly. if someone bit your throat, how would you counter that? just now i was biting that snake to prevent it from biting me — maybe that's the way to do it' (translation mine)

guo jing never change..