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I’m so tired of this lazy lesbian. Book is just too large to bring on my backpacking trip. Pause

Overly doting like a biography can be but an engrossing life lived for certain

portishead third a perfect companion to this book tbsfr - the sound of horsehooves , puckering, and gore.

I’ve heard this is the spiritual predecessor to crying in h mart

fuck i love korean food

hi jaye

… is so lush and poetic. Singularity visual and somewhat religious in its reliefs of objects and symbols

Took a 2 week hiatus to go full frontiersman - the first 150-180 did not much for me (other than earn favors from Dan), much too silly and simple, cliched many many many times over (don’t care that it’s the urtext).
two spots of light I saw this funny video of a fattish mid-thirty year old dancing crazy style at the renn faire and that’s Tom Bombadil, delightful
the scene in in the hovel of the barrow wraith

prosaic in a way that feels missing from modern literature, not that i’m ever reading mod lit. unfortunately my lunch spilled on the inside of my work bag drenching my already feeble copy in habaneroceleryparselyfetadateegg juice so I’ll have to pause until I get another copy. goodbye m. laruelle

the protagonist is so dull and unremarkable. eve continues making these unecessary psuedopoetic metaphors to female objects, bouquets of flowers, that come across as forced and empty. the book analogue of baby deer in a pink coquette bow—inevitable flattened by a collective, so bereft of real ardor, futility yearning to be physically magnetic and intellectually dazzling

hating this lavish dishonest defensive attitude towards youth and relationships but “a panorama of worthless rubble, peopled by macabre perverts” is so funny

page one, pen on fire fr
i have sung women in three cities
but it is all one
i will sing of the sun

had to take a sabbatical to work in playing rage cage.
truly a stinking scene where a kid breaks a dogs leg

more sexual depravity in the boys military academy than i had thought…. and guys, i was prepared for a lot

Sydney Carton is about how you can be privy to events of terrible historical magnitude and yet you won’t even be a footnote in the story of time and of nations.

a wilderness of misery and ruin

not to be “the girl who brought her book in the sauna and cried my book is falling apart” but i’m not even 100 pages in and this is my first sauna with this book

observes that once severed from religious exaltation artistic creation began to whither, when transformed from a pursuit in service to an individual and human aim, it’s become woundable, unfocused. “art for arts sake” is unsatisfying given this position. i rock with this- have struggled to articulate it for some time

perrys cracked chapter has me smiling and laughing so big in the wine bar down the house that i go to when i need some gia time. they’re playing (in 2025!) alabama shakes, feeling like im a mid-level corporate marketing professional, i’m in my late 30s, it’s 2015, my marriage is on the rocks, my life is not how i thought it was going to be, mommy needs her me time! teenage drug addiction still very sad tho

devise a compelling logic that god could ordain your transgressions: a mental health hack i have not considered. he moves in mysterious ways!

staggering every time how so fully flesh blood bone profession spirit age sex location every one of his characters is. a treat. like telepathy

very often too bumpersticker on the toyota lib, jar band cartoon appalachia but nice to read on a plane

back to the mines 🧎‍♀️‍➡️

had to take a weeb holiday from the anti-aesthetic

would rather shoot myzelf in ze face than fini zis book 🇫🇷🔫

like a wound that rather than healing with time, festers instead

depressing and desolate. like the east texas of literature or equally the sonora mexico i presume

I’ve been reading this for about two weeks, forgive my dishonesty, which in that time I’ve also started and half finished two other unreported books- which I do intent on finishing once I finish this and start and finish cinema 2. But I thought it important to record various delightful things the cat does, see below.
-puts a coin in the trolley slot and gets evicted from said trolley
-spears an olive with (cont.)

you must cultivate a garden in the shadow of their grudges and resentments

totally arresting turn of value this book has done for me. majestic, complicated, duplicitous