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“With the knowledge that vagal cardioinhibitory fibers fire with a breathing pattern, I had the necessary neurophysiological justification to transition from a global measure of heart rate variability to a more accurate component of heart rate variability that indexed vagal regulation of the heart.” no right totally! 😃 (what the hell is this man saying)

there’s beef going down in the Clinical Neuropsychiatry journal and i cant understand what theyre saying 😭😭

‘the only trace I have left of those happy days is the tattoo on my left ankle’
mine’s on my right 🤭

‘took a loop of string out of the pocket of his coat. On the loop of string were hundreds of keys, which made tiny clanging noises as they jostled one another. Hal quickly found the right key to unlock the door.’

surely this won’t become a problem later 😃

“The Baudelaires huddled together as if the cafeteria were extremely cold, wincing in soreness and worry. It seemed to the Baudelaire orphans that they wanted to be lucky more than they had in their entire lives.”

reason #17 i know my frontal lobe is developing: i just read that and said ‘you poor dears’ out loud to myself at breakfast

‘“Not only am I intelligent,” Genghis agreed, “but I’m also very smart.’

me as hell

“Goodness!” he cried. “Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don’t touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don’t move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don’t let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!”

shit guys i’m mr poe in an emergency 😭

“He taught them not to give the Green Gimlet Toad too much water, and to never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian Wolfsnake near a typewriter.” wait no i want to hear what the snake has to say!

“Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.” amen 🙏

re-reading this book feels like coming home 🩶 nesta archeron my beloved

“an extreme experience remembered in a single moment cannot and does not explain someone’s whole life” apologies to anybody who had to see me sobbing while driving on i-75 when she dropped that banger of a line

“I know she emigrated to Israel, where she was in the army, then university for a time before following an Israeli man to New York.” instant DNF i won’t read about war criminals free Palestine

CRIMINAL JUSTICE DEGREE MENTIONED 😜

office warfare with a little bit of mystery this is so fun

“When you’re young and you imagine your future, you don’t picture a short man wearing gladiator sandals and gripping a whistle forcing you to run around a meeting room to stay employed. Over your lunch break. In order to buy toilet paper and coffee. Why, again, had we all wanted to be adults so badly?”

“granted, there weren’t many since i wasn’t much of a joiner” can’t say the same queen 😜

“did revenge count as an occupation? how much did that pay?” lets fucking gooooo

“lesson twelve: make eye contact and small talk” noooooooooooo 💔 anything else please

“it is easy to follow along. it can feel strange to do or say something different. but without that unease, there is no freedom.”

“frank claimed that law was meant to serve the race, and so what seemed good for the race was therefore the law. with arguments like this, german lawyers could convince themselves that laws and rules were there to serve their projects of conquest and destruction, rather than hinder them.” oh so we learned NOTHING!

“it is not that the man actually endorses the content… he places the sign in his window so he can withdraw into daily life without trouble from the authorities. when everyone else follows the same logic, the public sphere is covered with signs of loyalty, and resistance becomes unthinkable” ✍️do✍️not✍️comply✍️in✍️advance✍️ - got it 🫡

“the odd american idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more speech, and so in effect far more voting power, than other citizens” timothy is fucking cooking over here

the narrator is doing a wonderful job keeping her shit together i personally wouldve slapped my ex-husband at least twice and don’t even get me started on the daughter girl get up 😭

“anger feels so much better than sadness- cleaner somehow and more definite. but then when the anger fades the sadness comes right back again” hoe did you just slap me in the face

a much needed reminder that men aren’t shit before i watch rob on the traitors

“psychiatrist: imagine how you’d feel if you always remembered that your dream has already been fulfilled. everything that comes after would be like a lovely bonus… try to imagine how you’d would look to your 20 year old self. wouldn’t she think something like ‘wow look at me i graduated college and work in a publishing house’

me: *suddenly bursts into tears*”

girl me too what the fuck 😭

“i think your dad wants us to know it’s okay to do drugs and not tell anyone about it” agatha you are ten years old that was NOT the moral of the bedtime story

buying a hard copy so i can annotate immediately

“Claude wore his bikini because Penn found he could not say to his son ‘the suit you love is ok at home but not in public’ because Rosie would not say ‘we're proud of you in private but ashamed of you at the pool’”

i- too stunned to speak

the concept of putting a spoon under your bed to conceive a specific gender, thinking twice and putting it in the dresser, changing your mind again and hiding it under the mattress, and then having a child that will grow up to be trans is fucking hilarious