Sam Miklos Markovich > Recent Status Updates

I have NOT been reading over thanksgiving. Sitting on my ass isn’t that easy after all.

It is actually really fun annotating it. I am even taking notes based on some summaries that I find after each canto, as this includes heavy allusion to things more ancient than the usual mythologies. Amazing so far.

Great that there’s exactly 100 Cantos. I decided to read this as my new year’s resolution of 12 books should be completed in time, and so something more difficult / long is fine; not that it has held me back, of course, but I just typically take a far longer time to read longer books. I want a good period of time for reading. With this one too, I am making sure to actually analyze all of the poetry and narrative

The Aleph portion of the text is now complete. This messes with my new year’s resolution, as I am using this platform to keep track of books read, and this is 1-2 books really with the “other stories” involved. Oh well.

Eng. Lit Book. Good

Very engaging.

Averroes’ & Zahir necessitated a reread but it made them all the better

Good so far

Better than previous

This chapter was good. Not great.

Symposium was good, though I might have to give it a second read. School is getting to me. I fell asleep yesterday and dreamt about reading this book and an excerpt from Spanish literature. I don’t entirely remember it, as I was asleep, and I didn’t realize until a bit after I woke up after reading the book that I had not been reading the book.

10/38… School tomorrow will be fun. Let’s see how much more I can read before first period Lit.

I really should be reading Jane Eyre for AP Lit right now…

Taking a long break from my crappy edition of the trial. I know that I am just procrastinating on it, but I am trying not to care.

Been falling behind on my resolution. It’s going to be fine though, I got got some books by my favorite authors of Kundera & Camus

Beginning to think of the court as more than just a physical one.

I have the crappiest edition possible. Page numbers are f-ed so im just going to go 10% per chapter.

“And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.” There is something beautiful to be found in simple way of presenting this. Camus’ writing might be one of my favorite.

Still beautiful.

Incredible writing style. A deceptively “simple” man denotes a deceptively “simple” lifestyle, and that is illustrated amazingly thus far.

Interesting syntax.

Onto a true frenchman!

Kundera’s depiction of the family’s jealousy, the misplaced hate of a timid man, the constant infantilization perpetrated by his mother, and the rationalization of mistakes is simply golden!

“No, I didn’t betray love by ratting on my love, I sacrificed her for the world’s love.”