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Bought mostly for the presentation and layout and who doesn’t love an anthology of essays

I read a review that said they weren’t sure about it and stuck it out to 100 pages and after that it was great and I agree - The world building and the characters take a while to get introduced too but after that it’s very fun and exciting

I accidentally got a potentially minor spoiler after googling a phrase I wanted decrypted but I’m still excited to see what happens next

In my mystical wizard era

This is so good !!!! I have very high expectations for this but living up to them

Omg I love this ! Slay

still can’t get over how bad he writes women lmao - kinda similar to Norwegian wood so far

The prose right now is so cool “ I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with a non-human world and somehow survives intact individual separate. paradox and bedrock” like okay edward pop off king and then???? “Suddenly it comes the flaming globe, blazing on the pinnacles and balanced rocks. We greet each other, sun and I”

Anthony my king 🫶 I miss you sm

I treated myself to a 50th anniversary edition and it’s so good and the illustrations are so wonderful and I’m in love

Shoutout to both my former therapists for recommending this to me

Goddamm I love this book I wish I did more anthropology and linguistics!!!!!!!!!

I will be honest I fell out of love with it for a while. But the prose is so beautiful

It’s laid out in such a fun way and v interesting too