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Siri play ‘The One You Really Love’ by the Magnetic Fields

The Carew Murder Case

Getting mysterious.

At the section titled Dr Jekyll was at his ease.

“If he be Mr Hyde…. I shall be Mr Seek” 🔥🔥🔥 if Lil Wayne wrote 19th Century gothic fiction.

Money makes people act funny.

Great insights on the fleeting and unrepeatable nature of memory.

Loving it, opening of chapter 5 is stunning:
“They are not brave, the days when we are 21… one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. Today, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then-how a careless word would linger…branded… eternal”

Amazing atmosphere in dream opening.

Listened some of the audiobook in the car the other evening and Jasmine got so into she went ahead and finished it herself! Urging me to finish asap, the subject of the novel is interesting but I’m never bowled over by the writing or the way the situations develop.

Talking about KMT’s atrocities on Taiwan after fleeing the PRC, RF Kuang knows her shit! Also the dogpiling into sides by people who don’t care to analyse is pretty accurate.

Homework preparation for seeing RF Kuang in Dublin to for a talk on Taipei Story.