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*marking the summary story in the underworld here

i forgot to update for weeks

Give none of these men a podcast

Oh you had to sleep with circe (kirkê) to save the bros? Oh sure, sure, sure totally. Some miami ass shit a man would say. KAM.

And men are about to be so insufferable, come two weeks—as if they weren’t since the age of Homer. “I am like those men who suffer the worst trials that you know” (Book 7, Line 10-11).. not the nice guy motto this isnt your obsession (2026)

So we move to LA. My father gets a job at the Palm Restaurant. My Uncle Junior works there who was a Jehovah's Witness, believe it or not. He went from Catholic to Jehovah. So basically, my grandmother wanted us all to switch—

Immediately going to bed to read a bodhi fic now

CCA rebranding as corecivic oh yes ive heard of you

Thurgood marshall—aka civil rights lawyer who eon brown v board and was the first african american supreme court justice—‘s son (thurgood marshall jr) being on CCA’s board since 2002 wtf????????

"The election of donald trump changed everything. The day trump won, CCA's stock soared 50%, jumping more than that of any other company in the stock market. Investors perhaps specially that trump’s promise to crack down on immigration would translate into the creation of more detention centers, contracts for… cca and geo group. Immigration detention, after all, is the frontier of private prison growth”

Gosh. This was a nauseating section. More torture, more sexual abuse/assaults, more cruelty from humans and from companies and governments. How to go about the rest of day after reading the stories we, as a society, have suspected, but are never detailed? Buried or ignored. I’m still at the table. Would reading another chapter help? A new story to try to bury the last, as has been done historically? I don’t know.

Re: cca has no schedule, dont know when meals are, if school/programs are on, if the law library is open, etc bc cca doesnt care and doesnt have staff to operate it all. “Guards bond w/ prisoners over their frustrations. Prisoners tell us they understand we are powerless to change these high-level management problems. Yet the two groups remain locked in a battle like soldiers in a war they don’t believe in”

Shane: “In the moment, they [breakthroughs] feel like a glimmer of a possibility that we can appreciate each other’s humanity, but I come to understand that our positions make this virtually impossible. We can chat and laugh through the bars, but inevitably I need to flex my authority. My job will always be to deny them [prisoners] the most basic of human impulses—to push for more freedom”

Cracking up in the coffee shop at the dialogue around shane’s tight pants
TLDR: Shane thought he was being tested because he seemed scared so he had to show he “dont mess around.” Grey shirt said “people dont think you’re scared, man. A lot of people think you’re gay, bro. You be wearing those tight-ass pants” LMAO “..so tight they give you a suntan in the wintertime. You got a woman’s swag, bro”

Brutal historic and present cases in this section.. some truly horrific evils

A few missing commas?

Great vocab inclusions but a few grammar mishaps? Not sure about whoever edited this

“It was long believed that disease is propagated via air, and that the miasmic exudations of the dragon could thus be pestilential, helping to explain the link between dragging and malarial swamps and marshes”

A little thing I got from the Getty on historical origins of lore. Short and informative, mostly, then sometimes it says something so random or unconnected like a reference without a source or explanation I’m like was this written by AI or do we speak a different language

Forgot to be updating oops

Finished the book part, onto the history, context, and criticism part!

“Come on now, we’re going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them” LOL

Roles of fire are so interesting — destruction/taking, warmth/giving, natural vs. mechanical light, ashes, phoenix

“And someday, after it sets in us a long time, it’ll come out our hands in our mouths. And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right”
It was an interesting philosophy those scholars seemed to have. The waiting game.

Guy imagines millie “leaning toward the great shimmering walls of color and motion, where the family talked and talked and talked to her…and smiled at her and said nothing of the bomb that was an inch, now half an inch, now a quarter inch from the top of the hotel. Leaning into the wall as if all the hunger of looking would find the secret of her sleepless unease there.”