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"The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn’t want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly—except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead."

And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: “Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity....."

“There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on earth”

“And there’s no fear, fear requires understanding, there’s only awe….”

“Tell about the south. What’s it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.”

“That is the substance of remembering—sense,sight,smell: the muscles with which we see and hear and feel—not mind,not thought: there is no such thing as memory: the brain recalls just what the muscles grope for: no more, no less: and it’s resultant sum is usually incorrect and false and worth only of the name of dream.”

Already more straightforward than The Sound and the Fury, let’s hope it’s half as good

“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living,” Augustus said. “I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live”

“I wish I could’ve finished the song” 😭

Been wanting to read this one for awhile

I just hope everything works out for Jane

“There’s something just as inevitable as death. And that’s life.”

“There is really nothing more to say—except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”

“The life of Saint Augustine has a special appeal because he was a great sinner who became a great Saint…”

“My fear was now of another kind. I felt sure that the creature was what we call “good,” but I wasn’t sure whether I like “goodness” so much as I had supposed. This is a very terrible experience. As long as what you are afraid of is something evil, you may still hope that the good may come to your rescue. But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that is also dreadful?”

“How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to
wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn’t anybody’s fault but your own.”

Trying not to read all my NYRB books before March but it’s difficult

Colonel Sanders??

Can a living person have a ghost?

Fever dream so far

Been wanting to read this one since I finished stoner

Just in time for Christmas

Francis mentioned?

He’s backkkk

I hate Vegas

“Sitting there on the edge of her bed, it felt like the waking-up moment between dream and daylight where everything merged and mingled just as it was about to change, all the same, fluid, euphoric slide:rainy light..”

What do u have for me this time Ms Tartt?

“Rarely do we choose our road,” I said, and smiled. “But we can choose how we walk it. Every day.”

I am deeply terrified to start this