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I have slightly changed my mind about Sally Rooney😭
this isn’t great literature. it’s quite bland and seems to be nothing special but…
but it isn’t a bad book at all and it’s quite nice to read actually.

this is my beach read and yes i am indeed the coolest girl here

also it’s 3 am and I really zoned out for a second while reading this thinking I should not worry about the burdens of humanity and just read fanfiction. Our brains are so on the decay bro. shame on me.

also this is my first introduction to virginia woolf the playwright, and so far so good. still gonna read fanfiction to lull myself to sleep though

“So I detach the summer term. With intermittent shocks, sudden A the springs of a tiger, life emerges heaving its dark crest from the sea. It is to this we are attached; it is to this we are bound, as bodies to wild horse.”

im shaking in my boots rn

insane. weirdly feels exactly like kadikoy at six in the morning when I’ve gotten out of a movie marathon at the cinema. that may br an original experience so… it also feels like before sunrise. and more than anything, it feels like kadıköy at 6am after a before sunrise marathon. yes, thats it

17/24
odysseus ithaca’ya cok hizli geldi😭😭

11/24
herakles odysseusu nereden taniyo abi %100 gotunden atiyor odysseus bu hikayeyi

4/24
I can’t believe athena is stuck with this whiny little twat by affiliation

yanlis yazmisim

bitiriyorum her sey yolunda hicbir sorun yok doris lessing asla problematik soylemlerde bulunmuyor

"As far as you are concerned, I've gone beyond the childish, I've transmuted it and saved it, by embodying it in myth. But in fact all I do, or you do, is to fish among the childish memories of an individual, and merge them with the art or ideas that belong to the childhood of a people."

“Then I know that an awful black whirling chaos is just outside me, waiting to move into me. I must go to sleep quickly, before I become that chaos.”

(free women 2)
Lessing delivers the good old Joyce-like passivity and emotional paralysis of her protagonist so thoroughly. It is easily heard in her voice, not only her words but her tone as well, that she is numb, stuck, fragmented, detached…