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Taking a moment before I finish the story to appreciate the epigraphs , never have I read a story with such efforts made into the world-building and plot foreshadowing!!!

I loveee to see anything by the princess Irulan

“ Awareness flowed into that timeless stratum where he could view time, sensing the available paths, the winds of the future... the winds of the past: the one-eyed vision of the past, the one-eyed vision of the present and the one-eyed vision of the future-all combined in a trinocular vision that permitted him to see time-become-space. “

Paul gaining his supreme awareness sounds like a bad high

i wanna be an Atreides badddddd

“ We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. “

O’Brien is rage baiting and I’m confused

Nawl cus dis shit too accurate

67 REFERENCE

“ Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. “

“ Besides in those days, they had been slaves, and now they were free, and that made all the difference, as Squealer did not fail to point out”

LOL Orwell u r too damn slick

“ I had yet to learn that nothing in this world can ever match the marvels that we conjure up in our own minds. “

“ English is a trust fund, an unearned inheritance, but I've worked for every bit of French I've banked. “

“ to learn a new language is to take on a new identity “


Whom shall I be when my French is as proficient as my English!!??

Also, I fear I am now interested in linguistics dadgumit

Yes this is good yes I do believe so

“ People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same. “

For example, Iago in Shakespeare's Othello is a cool communicator, delivering incomplete or explicit messages to have his victims draw their own conclusions. This in turn lead Othello to imagine the worst of Desdemona fidelity, we know how that ended up.
The reference emphasizes the power of suggestion in societies cool media.

McLuhan continues with his theme that the form of medium matters more than its context.

Chapter two highlights the differences between Hot and Cold media.

Hot media, requires less participation from our end and is more linear (books,newspaper,radio) immersive in one sensory channel
unlike its counterpart cold media which is vague and engages multiple sensory channels. (TV, speech, movies)

Patrick Bateman cameo,
i love that i’ve read american psycho & remember when he bought the tie for sean that sean just mentioned receiving.

“If you can’t make a girl come why even bother?”

Sean Bateman, you are NOTHING like your brother.

“ Realize I look disgusting and turn away “

Me always

“ In nature there is no such thing as ugly”

i’m really cringing at some points but this is such a sally rooney book. is it bad i can recognize it’s her by the style of her smut writing? anyways im liking the main characters and their issues, i sense dread and lots of tension rn!!!!