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what a dreamy start. miss future-fashion designer parisian befriends a well-connected ex-medical student entering the fashion industry (!?) on her ww2 escape boat to america ,, she befriends a perfect beautiful model living in the BARBIZON HOTEL for women ,,, which gives her access to a new clientele : "working class ladies who need clothes in which to BE purposeful". ma chérie everything is in place here isn't it

alright fellas, back to work. reading this through my epistemic solitude lens (immer) , will probably post my shadow work on the internet.

the spring is beautiful in california. chapter 25 with the most visceral prose I've ever borne witness to . yearning to know the men who transformed the world with their knowledge ,, driving the earth to produce. their experiments with seeds and chemistry. the men who can't create a system where their fruits may be eaten . in my dreams i see yellow jackets digging into rotting yellow flesh . my Bible, my monologue

art makes perception damn long and laborious ,, shoutout elif batuman by way of shklovsky. all my homies love the written word . who said it was simpatico for cops to bar skilled farmers from using the land around them ? it is not a crime to feed your family. who the ffjjf owns the means of production of the earth ?
also hooverville dinner scene = mom in aurene. jot that down

queued up this 700 page beast after an invigorating trip to the mystic seaport. i missed the annual moby dick marathon aboard the 1841 charles w morgan by four days , my hysteria persists , but as master of my fate i am doing it live now. saw too many captains Messiah-framed on coastal home walls and diagrams of blubber cut spirally off whales rolled out of the gentle sea to let this go. going straight to the source

he writes in a way that makes me feel i have had a future father-in-law direct short speeches three inches over my head and i have been a recently betrothed young person climbing joylessly into a roadster and i have been a neighborhood mother talking aimlessly above the noise of games and running . language is so powerful

y.a. stuff nowadays tries and fails to describe the "passive as the earth from which he had emerged" to "moving outward into the world containing him" pipeline with any grace . genius, relatable allegories here

in me thou see'st the glowing of such fire,
that on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
as on the death bed whereon it must expire,
consumed with that which it was nourished by.

thinking of this expediently as I choose how to spend each day of the last year of my twenties. mr. shakespeare speaks to us all across 300 years ,, use dry wood and frequent healthy online and offline spaces in 2025 ,my comrades on my page

furiously scribbling down that keynesian economics (throwing $$$$ at a problem) doesn't work when the supply of a product is insufficient. The Bankroller must throw Thy money (or Thy resources or expertise) at the production bottleneck, not just at the consumer . this new knowledge that i have is so abstract and it's so lame to include an example in my goodreads post . english motherf**** do i speak it

blaming a lack of patented inventions on living in a low innovation area and not being invited to sf house parties right out the gate in chapter 1 ? yup I'm sat for the twitter book

it's so interesting that tom's first stated lore is his recent release from jail when his character has been nothing but morally upstanding. he's vocal about his experience when it would be easier to stay quiet and forget ,, shameless (how do I achieve chat); stands by his choices. more a reflection of the prison system than his criminality imo . god forbid i could read (a person's character) in high school english

this geschichte could cause a lot of psychic damage to the wrong type of person. extremely 2025 cyberpunk

chapters are as follows: 50 words describing the mineral requirements of modern technology (yesssss), pages of muckracking and political posturing. i'm mostly suffering and googling keywords

palette cleanser. interspersing mining YouTube to fill in my knowledge gaps like I'm living in the late aughts

this may have been intended as a satire. don't think i'll stick around to confirm. this girl is so nuts and swag-less. this behavior could probably be solved by a hobby

when my mother whines about me "wanting" to be "alone forever" (throwing around infinites is nothing for my ray of sunshine) i will direct her to the concept of emil the sex pest. just kidding i do not have the confidence or eloquence to do that and she already got my ass twice this vacation. can't be vulnerable again. i'm reading this book because i can't afford to live in chelsea but still want to know

classic ferdinand monologue .... yes and-ing himself so hard that he births an entire new idea. logical fallacies abound,, i'm particularly caught up on "that handful of money would allow something unrealized in me to flourish". i would have read that in 1942 and had a damn heart attack. in 2009 i used it on my mom to con some new jeans

200,000 krones in a chest during the day and under the bed at night. i feel ill reading about this dissolved Habsburg monarchy and the wounded innocent Austrians who actually suffered . genz thinks we came into the world at a bad time but nobody ever reimbursed the idealistic ww1 soldiers who were hearded into certain death with the Radetzky March

ah, to lose your childhood amid the confusion of the breakup of the habsburg monarchy. good for you dear christl for letting things happen to you in hotel society, which surely isn't real society. general elkins, president of london geographical society, adores you. don't cry because its over

in a general sense name dropping zach minty's friend to switch to the zach minty perspective chapter would have hit so hard if i were still a lass. us disney channel suckers cared about things like that. just wasnt that deep. "inviting him by promising to kick his ass if he didn't come" is so real and so zach

so why does miles continue his middling existence in empire falls? ? the cop euphoria nate's dad character james minty calls him out for isolating and exuding self-importance. why stay and fetch cindy whiting's cane and conditionally assume control of a difficult business frequented by your ex-wife's new husband? u seem to hate everyone ; perhaps you are in your own way jefe. drive away

i can't imagine the irreparable damage that a father like max would do to my psyche and sense of self. it's way more than this but why can't he just get the crumbs in his beard

mycenean era military strategy is so dramatic and unreplicable. ajax's big back fights ALONE on the mast of agamemnon's ship and nearly survives. achilles sends his mans out disguised as himself because his presence is enough (where are your MANNERS?) and they actually retreat. the power of a reputation. this entire civilization is god-fearing

don't let a 2025 social media scientist read that a plague was spread specifically to foot soldiers and nobles (but not innocent women) from a curse. germ theory just can't handle that type of press right now

of course odysseus foresaw the refugee crisis building in troy after his army raided that first time. of course he saw the perfect opportunity to negotiate with the king to end the conflict. of course he adjusted his military strategy when the king refused, leading soldiers "a civilized seven days out of ten, with time off for festivals and funerals". mmm mmmm so capable, so eloquent, so god-fearing. perfect specimen

oh this author did deidameia DIRTY. strings are being pulled and motives are transparent Missy! will this be her watershed

i'm baaack, notizen für die Zukunft
a tree rose from the earth. o pure transcendence - orpheus sings. o tall oak in the ear! all was silent.
herakles and the 12 labors, subduing primitive tribes on his travels around greece
universal achilles, a hero for all times, a mortal man favored by the immortal gods, driven to fight and doomed to die

fulfilling book club requirements

we open with future trojan war heroes "let helen choose" odysseus and "smart for a 9 year old" patroclus. i'm sort of intrigued mostly taking notes does anyone have a mythology dictionary i can borrow

oh walt is sooooooo eternal. that man exists and manages the palm beach sports club jupiter branch. he's at f1 this weekend janine mama think this through

a god-fearing man contemptibly runs the family business in lieu of romping around the Yucatan writing mid poetry. he dynamites his backyard river to divert trash from flowing to the doorstep of his georgian mansion. this concept is humming and we're only in the prologue