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rereading for book club!

“Lately I never felt good enough. I always wanted to explain to him that I was not good.”

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good. Is that it?”

“He smiled at her as a man might smile at a memory.”

“Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?”

“I don’t know.”

“Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”

it’s becoming apparent that in many layers this is a mix of elements from yellowface and babel, ie we have a contentious female protagonist caught in the unforgiving and ferocious (political) world of academia

sheesh

‘No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel it in ourselves it is true and true of us.’

holy shit

finally got interesting

‘heterocetera’

okay..?

“I only know that with or without these customs, you mark time, and you learn that the days march on, even though you would prefer for them to stop. Ask the clock for mercy; I promise, there is none—only a day on which your loved one is dead, and another, and another, and another after that.”

“Today is always here,” said Sethe. “Tomorrow, never.”