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LETS GOOOOO

RF Kuang is simply an extraordinarily talented artist/genius and I have nothing else to say so far

Still here!! It’s still great I’m just slow this year

Yeah this is a banger

“She kills her lover on the altar of a foreign goddess.”

PAGE ONE WE’RE STARTING HOT

“But what is desire?”
“Absence.”

I think I have the right prediction

Interesting so far…I think I know where it’s going 🧐

“Grief suffocated. Grief paralyzed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe.”

YOO FUCK LETTY??

How can such sickening topics be written so beautifully pls 😭

“It was so obvious now that he was not, and never could be, a person in his father’s eyes. No, personhood demanded the blood purity of a European man […].”

I don’t want this book to end, my god

‘English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon test without borrowed goods.’

“We hold the secrets, and we can set whatever terms we like.”

woo…corruption

Words don’t exist in translation to each other.

“Do we take words as our unit of translation, or do we subordinate accuracy of individual words to the overall spirit of the text?”

Sobbing