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gollum is gollumin’ and the ring is ringin’

the elves are elvin’

nice trolling

off to a great start

lydia risking it all for 9 inches…

the nuances inside lizzy’s psyche these past few chapters have been really well written

darcy is finally back!

for some reason, I don’t trust miss bingley

valid crashout from mrs. bennet

elizabeth is losing for now. but I think she has a long term strategy at play…

Mr. Collins slightly redeemed himself. he took his L with some sort of grace.
on another note, the pettiness and bitchiness of Caroline is inspiring.

out of all the types of men in the world, Mr. Collins is the worst of them…

loving how this properly takes its time

reading books all day. talking ad nauseam. lusting over each other… so far, this is home.

love it, but I’m afraid that so far, none of this is passing the bechdel test…

guilt is a state of mind…

innocence is a state of mind…

as long as you have memories, you can never really get bored… interesting.

interesting that the moments he remembers with fondness are the ones where he was called the antichrist…

end of part one. powerful stuff.

the ability to talk about nonsense throughout a whole chapter, and then make the last two sentences reconsider the depth of everything you’ve just read is quite a talent…

camus really knows how to end his chapters…

it’s not just the first sentence that’s iconic, it’s the whole, incredibly vivid, opening sequence.

“Kafka expresses tragedy through the everyday, and the absurd through logic.”

“we must imagine Sisyphus happy”

“The actor has taught us: there is no dividing line between seeming and being.”

“Existence is deceitful, and it is eternal.”

“Art—and only art, says Nietzsche. We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

“This absurd and godless world is populated by people who think clearly and no longer hope.”