B > Recent Status Updates

-“you have mistaken your cowardice for common sense and have found comfort in that, deceiving yourselves”

There should have been a convenient frying pan lying around for Lisa to hit him over the head with mid-speech 🙄

NEED to smoke with this guy…

-“the direct, the inevitable, and the legitimate result of consciousness is to make all action impossible”
-“I should have oozed tears like a sponge.”
-“my jokes are in very bad taste, they are lame and a bit confused, and show a lack of self-confidence too. That is because I have no self respect.” Truly a voice of the people…

😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😣

- well that was stressful!!
- “To have those feelings disturbed was painful; but she knew all the same that they were the best part of her inner self and that that part of her was being rapidly smothered by the life she was leading.”

-really enjoyed Mikhailov couldn’t believe what he said about Vronsky’s painting lmaoo
-ch 17-20 with Nikolai 😶
-“it was so necessary for him in his humiliation to possess at least this imaginary height from which he, despised of all, could despise others, that he clung to his sham salvation, as though it were true salvation.”

If Kitty dies Leo dies by my sword

-“these joys were so small that they were quite imperceptible, like grains of gold in sand; but there were also good moments when she saw nothing but joy, nothing but gold.”

Really like all these characters— everyone’s in their own unique mental trenches, and so tangible. Levin is so off-putting and you can just feel he’s been a few steps away from a serious spiritual catastrophe since his first sentence, it’s very compelling I want to mow with him for real.

- really enjoyed Laska the dog’s pov 😄
- “love was not a joke or a pastime, but something more ecstatic and important”
-“Kitty felt that in her, in her way of life, she could find the pattern she herself was so painfully seeking; interest in life, dignity of life…”

-“All his life he had lived and worked in official spheres, dealing with the reflection of life. And every time he had come up against life itself, he had kept aloof from it. Now he experienced a sensation such as a man might experience who, having calmly crossed a bridge over a chasm, suddenly discovers that the bridge has been demolished and that there is a yawning abyss in its place.“

- ok i get it I’m in love with her too!
-“to live with him now will be torture to me, just because I love my past love for him”
-“you’re both in the wrong. You more outwardly and he more inwardly”
-p. 111-112

-“you logic-chopping, chalky-faced saint of an atheist”
-“can you imagine language, once clear-cut and exact, softening and guttering, losing shape and import, becoming mere lumps of sound again?”
- 😦

Really fucked up!

🫥

White Heathcliff better be ready to bring it for these monologues… 🫢

WHO is doing despair like them? Who is lamenting their wretched existence like them?

-poor creature 🥺
-“the never-dying worm”
-“The wounded deer dragging its fainting limbs to some untrodden brake, there to gaze upon the arrow which had pierced it, and to die— was but a type of me.”

-“thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin”
-“to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth”
-“I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being: chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought”

Seated

More Keats what do you know— ‘half in love with an easeful death’

- back and forth between the complete cosmic horror of this scenario and how cool the dust lore is like scientifically/metaphysically
-also im as jealous of Lyra and Will as I was as a child: I want a dæmon and I want this knife…

- the little spies have Shevek Thedispossessed’s ansible I love it, shout out to quantum entanglement 💗

-no way did the knife break, I’m stressed out!
-it been like 20 years but wow did not remember the sapient ungulates with wheels or the Lilliputian spies 👍

- This is actually really scary…

- “The foxes of the Arctic, scavengers that they were, had picked up some language, but their brains were so formed that they could only understand statements in the present tense. Furthermore, when they spoke, much of what they said was lies, so it didn’t matter if they repeated what they’d heard: no one could sort out which parts were true” #themoreyouknow #naturefacts

-“Will longed for that so much that he hardly knew he did. It was just part of what everything felt like.” oh Will… 🤕🤕😖😖

-“Another crack, and this time the bullet went deep somewhere inside, seeking out the centre of his life. He thought: it won’t find it there. Hester’s my centre.” 😭😭😭😭😭

(PP understood, like Bram Stoker, that you need a random guy from Texas to aid in your quest and die valiantly :( rip Lee Scoresby and Hester)

— “Was there only one world after all, which spend its time dreaming of others?” HMM
— John Keats patron poet-saint of Dust?