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“It is not the Holocaust that justifies the state if Israel, it is rather Israel’s crimes that require us to remember the meaning of fascism”

some really clunky sentence construction

Jewishness as a “hauntology” defined by memory and resistance

P4 “there has always been an anti-Zionist Jewish left; indeed, it is the emerge of a Zionist consensus, post 1967, that has been the historical oddity”

“She was soon running around with a big cutthroat trout in her hands, carrying it like a harp on her way to a concert—ten minutes late with no bus in sight and no taxi either”

Maybe this is the most in-the-spirit way to read this book, to jot random streamofconsciousness thoughts at likely incorrect %s with a spirit of selfimportance. This Karenina part would make a lovely essay in a lit mag, and i am tired of reading it.

This reads too harshly considering that i enjoy reading her writing immensely and think she is clearly brilliant. Cant wait to read a novel of hers that isnt this one.

More notes as i read:

-outside of memory/ time/ illness, where her ruminations are evergreen witty and brilliant, this is too often either lit review or terminally online or hyper-specific to her public persona in 2020. Wish the book was more of the former and less of the latter, even as i understand+appreciate that she is trying to be incredibly true to form and have it be of the moment and streamofconsciousness

Notes as i read:

-quotes w no citation are maddening!! Esp. Since this is classified as fiction, so you can play w form and function, irresponsible and plain confusing. See what shes trying to do with it, as far as really being in her mind, but it just serves instead to take me out of her mind and halt the flow of thoughts.
-lovelovelove where she is playing w memory and illness and think thats brilliant