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Infinite debt; ressenti; despot(ic?) incest??
HELP

Social scientist try not to use 10,000 words to explain a phenomenon already explained by 50 Marxist theorists Challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

You read even one sentence about Qing/warring-states-period landlords and you instantly attain Maoist Nirvana. Mfs were evil evil evil

P. 269 “Daring daylight assault on the Lavatory Attendants’ Syndicate . . .”

Sargasso Junction!

P. 187 “You can cut into Naked Lunch at any intersection point . . . I have written many prefaces.”

Uh… wut?

Uh… wut?

First essay was a BIG STINKER

Gleeds!

Trying a new method of cycling through 4 books a chapter at a time since there’s so much reading I want to get done this summer

“Evangeline” is such a treat to read

P. 131 “Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.”
This quote and the discussion of literature in relation to schizophrenia on pages 133–35 made the end of this chapter very enjoyable!

Did anyone else know that “autism” is a shortening of the term “autoeroticism” and was described as a patient’s retreat from the outer world to an inner, subjective world? Cool!

“Oedipus is a fucking drag.”

Is it effed up that I’m having so much fun with this book?

🚨 TRADE ALERT 🚨
I give:
2 hours of my time

Anti-Oedipus gives:
8 pages

Every time I find myself understanding something I read in this book I get suspicious

Irving is currently undercutting a very well-written moment by over-explaining and repeating it to DEATH