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"I stare instead, hands behind my back, from far away, sometimes even at the room's threshold, where everything is still possible because nothing is revealed."

"They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it."

This book is just filled to the brim with pretty things like these and i love it

"I let the mirror hold those flaws - because for once, drying, they were not wrong to me but something that was wanted, that was sought and found among a landscape as enormous as the one I had been lost in all this time."

🥲

"What a terrible life, I think now, to have to move so fast just to stay in one place"

My god he's good

ITS FINALLY TIMEEEEEE
(Thanks to the person who lent me this book, you know who you are n I appreciate ya)

"Perhaps he stores something in his body [...] of which he is periodically milked by his masters." What the hellie

Bro I'm sorry to everyone that wants me to finna read Ocean Vuong, I tried ok maar ze waren allemaal al uit de bib die ze wel in het gamma heeft. Enkel deze hadden ze, en die moest uit het magazijn gehaald worden want deze heeft volgens mij niemand meer gelezen de laatste 40 jaar xD

Vásquez heeft er wel iets voor om zichzelf te casten

Eerste alinea van pagina 175 begint met "Six or seven" en I regret to inform you that my neurons did in fact fire

deze 'Beloved'-meid heeft serieuze issues

They told me it'd be messed up but damn

''The leap from calf to girl was not that big''
What the hell

?laten we naar het concentratiekamp gaan kijken, 't zal een goeie ervaring zijn" Bro wat

"Oh maar ik ben geen jood hoor"
Proceeds to say "Shalom" to a gestapo officer
Is deze guy dom?

omg na een goeie 160 pagina's zijn we terug in de "main box story" finally nah op zich logisch dat het zolang duurt want veel info en important stuffs

Ah yes, om de moord op Gaitán te snappen moeten we eerst die op Uribe Uribe snappen, waarvoor een guy die vaag iets te maken heeft met de moordpoging op el presidente Reyes ook van belang is (tbh ik ben al vergeten wat de link tussen de chief van de policía en de conspirador op Reyes was)

lekker postmoderne metafictie met z'n "ruido de las cosas al caer" mention

"[...] ha empezado a llegarle, procedente del cuadro 'El príncipe negro', la seductora llamada del oscuro príncipe que, para invitarla a adentrarse y perderse en el lienzo, le envía el arrogante sonido del tam-tam de su país, el país de los suicidas."

AINT NO WAY "We are all cooked" "Do you think nothing will happen?" I didn't know Hemmingway was chill like that

The Thing on the Doorstep

Top ten red flags in women:
She from Innsmouth.
Her father is the old wizard man.
She tries to steal your body to become a greater wizard.

The Haunter of the Dark

Sooo when the terrible Azathoth-born creature you accidentally summoned IS darkness, you do NOT want to sit at home with the lights off. Why didn't bro just buy a load of candles and light them? "Oh no, must pray the light stays on" *Continues to sit without light during a crazy storm*
Yog-Sothoth have mercy on that poor fella's soul

At the Mountains of Madness

1) crazy earth lore just dropped wth the concept of deep time means NOTHING to the Old Ones appearantly
2) really nice how the rest of the stories are pulled in with Wilmarth mention and stuff, but especially with the "full" explanation of the timeline of creatures (Old Ones, Cthulhu spawn and fungal crabs)
3) Yog-Soggoth just got DOXXED?!?!?!??

At the Mountains of Madness (not done)

Yooo my boi Lovecraft really is tying up loose ends huh first he brings Wilmarth back (Whisperer in Darkness) and now he mentiones the Nameless City in "Arabia Deserta" from The Nameless City... I'm still waiting for the Rats in the Walls to be mentioned...

At the Mountains of Madness (not done)

Ok I do appreciate how he tied in The Whisperer in Darkness by mentioning my boi Wilmarth

The Shadow over Innsmouth

Ok but WHAT IS THAT TWIST
The last five pages or so just gave the preceding events a whole new layer. What did the Innsmouth people already know? What'd they do if they got him?
Crazy twists

The Dreams in the Witch-house

These protagonists gotta stop relying too much on their reasoning and start believing the signs. "Oh, I have a mysterious rat bat that bloodied my whole arm in my sleep but the sheets are clean, huh, how peculiar, oh well"
PLEASE man are you slow?
Although the evil is defeated here, you know the black figure still lurks as does Azathoth and all that chaos so is it really?

The Whisperer in Darkness

The storytelling just keeps getting better ohmigosh
But like seriously, when someone suddenly changes personality opinions and all that do NOT go into the ancient alien crab infested forest alone