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3 days to finish off the reading goal and end with Brandon again. Type.

Was asking myself why the community disliked this book so much in relation to the others until now. Super weird when fiction like this makes modern / historical references.

I haven’t read a word in 2 weeks but watched 7 movies so I guess go view my letterboxed.

Fuck it we ball

Fuck it, back to back

“Youth and death have always been an intoxicating combination for the myth makers left amongst the living. And dangerous, even violent, self-loathing has long been an essential ingredient in the fires of transformation. When the "new self" burns to life, the twins of great control and recklesness are immutably linked. It's what makes life interesting.”

“We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming the demons that laid them low and now reside in us.”

I’ve been slacking.

“The future—for once— seemed extraordinarily bright. Like glowing, brilliant glass.”

“Maybe that’s the point. Maybe emotions don’t make us weak. Maybe they teach us. Like the pain of touching a hot stove. They show us what we should do, and remind us what we should not.”

“Art was locked to the page, and a person was always so much more than any image could contain.”

“Art is a part of us. That’s the use; that’s the reason. It exists because on some fundamental level we need it. Art exists to be made.”

PPT ✅2

“[He] Had believed once that life must lead to something, all the unresolved conflicts and questions leading on towards some great culmination… But what is it all leading up to. An end without an ending[?]”

“Is it different, to want something, and to think the wanted thing is a good idea?”

Part 2

PPT ✅point

Modern Nonfiction Horror book just in time for the holidays!

“If a pistol appears conspicuously in the first act of a play it is there for a reason and will be fired at some point.”

“To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next?”

“A king fortifies himself with a castle, a gentleman with his desk.”

After finishing part one, the book so far stretches out beautiful, stain-glassed window-like prose that can’t help but make you smile as you sit next to the characters in the scene.

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Weeee 🤸🏽‍♂️

Checkpoint ! 🤸🏽‍♂️

“Nothing is fixed, no course is so set that it cannot be changed.”

First checkpoint!

First part all done, full circle wrapping up and cult tropes coming to a close.

This book is so challengers.