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Through with Part One: onto Part Two!

Didion deserves better than to be read on the verge of a nap in a silent, sterile, windowless office, but it does do something to enhance the apathetic, nihilistic quality of the text.

The month Thermidor begins tomorrow, so this’ll be a very timely read indeed.

The end is nigh…

Robespierre & Saint-Just are dead, and the Directory is so lame! Wish my boys were featured more 3.

I underestimated the chaos that France was plunged into during the revolution; I cannot keep track of it all. I’m honestly surprised that France has survived as a state.

Progressing rather slowly through this, but I’m enjoying it. I would prefer if the major figures were better characterised, but I suppose that’s too much to ask considering how much information this book already covers.

I’d be a liar if I said I wasn’t primarily motivated to read this by the “frev” fandom and their shitposting and gorgeous fanart.

bottle-green bowler hats

I started reading this a few weeks ago, but I got caught up in the whirlwind that is the end of the school year and it got tossed aside, so I’ve decided to restart it.

I absolutely adore Waugh’s tempered, British humour. It’s a very nice contrast to Wilde’s, who is liable to do too much.

Actually reading like a teenage boy for once!

Ill finish this book… one day…

Feeling very ambivalent about Severin. On one hand, his notions of romanticism and “supersensuality” are very appealing, as are his sensitivity and worship-like love. However, on the other hand, he’s actually lunatic. He’s perverted (the protagonist of the most famous erotic novel is perverted? shocking.), confusing, and, honestly, annoying. Good for Wanda, I guess.

I finished the essays and I am so lost.

Saw this book mentioned a few times online, so I decided to pick it up.

The topic is very interesting, but trying to read Deleuze’s very academic analysis of the subject as someone who is both unacquainted with the nightmare that is Freudian psychoanalysis and is sooo sleepy is not working well. Nonetheless, I power through.

If all academic writing is like this, uni is going to be an experience!

THE DRAMA… OH… MY GOD…