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so far this is blowing my socks off over and over again
watch out for silkworms

really really excellent

this is really improving. irimias is such a good character and the bit with the little girl was so well written i felt it echo in my bones

odd, small hungarian villiage where a manic doctor smokes too much and a mysterious man arrives from seemingly thin air
all written in a vague modernist haze
hmmmmm

"i was the shadow of the waxwing slain..."
this is really good so far. It might be the best 20th century novel as some have claimed???
The bit where his daugher died was so good I cried.

I started this for a history class and now I'm trying to read the greek properly and am stuck in a sea of words. But the uni thinks δεῖ τοῦτο ποιῆσα so on i go

entirely converted to the church of austen. so funny. i majorly fuck with this

How is one novel this good

Going well! Faulkner is as excellent as always, but the division of the novel into 16 or so parts makes it a bit hard to follow

this is so strange but i am here for it: "the individual is the seat of a constant process of decantation"

insane crossover event when the coolest novelist ever meets a pompous asshole who wrote 2 decent plays and a pile of other slop (but i have to say the essay itself is good so far,) and also Beckett's haircut was insanely cool

"Everyone whom love gets in his grasp becomes a poet, even if he was uninspired by the Muse before." Love truly is Aristophanes' belief that we are all just people cleaved into halves, looking for the well-fitting other half who understands, who embraces us in the fullness of our selves

First Greek tragedy I've read. Have been really enjoying it so far. The sticomythia and the kind of balance-setting of the chorus is great. Reading in tandem with bits of Nietzche's Birth of Tragedy, which is kinda heavy-going but interesting as a philological/thematic contextualiser.

This is really heavy sledding
Somehow I find Greek tragedies a super complicated read