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"Dickens, who had not the vision to see that private property is an obstructive nuisance, had the vision to see that. "If men would behave decently the world would be decent" is not such a platitude as it sounds."

"If that were all, he might be no more than a cheer-up writer, a reactionary humbug. A "change of heart" is in fact the alibi of people who do not wish to endanger the status quo."

"The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another."

"The revolutionaries appear to him simply as degraded savages—in fact, as lunatics. He broods over their frenzies with a curious imaginative intensity. He describes them dancing the "Carmagnole,""

Okay, I'm seeing Tales of Two Cities in a new light.

" if anything is pro-capitalist, because its whole moral is that capitalists ought to be kind, not that workers ought to be rebellious."

"And so far as social criticism goes, one can never extract much more from Dickens than this, unless one deliberately reads meanings into him."

I gotta read more of Dickens. I like this criticism.

"Whatever else Dickens may have been, he was not a hole-and-corner soul-saver, the kind of well-meaning idiot who thinks that the world will be perfect if you amend a few by-laws and abolish a few anomalies." I'M CRYING, MAN

Two Nights in and I already am done with this yapper.

touch grass dawg

Hey so I kinda like the Doorman

A good precursor of the The Communist Manifesto. It's easily understandable.

“If I don’t trust me, who will?”

Needed that today. 😞

GIGGLING. I LOVE CIPHERRR

Well, can't say I'm surprised SMHHHHHHH. Fk big corporations

“Chicks dig scars,”

Just let this character die. 😭 Hate when men refer to women as 'chicks'. It's such an ickkkk

“Consider me yours to command.”

The way I giggled at 8 am. Hehehehehehehehehe

“You know what? I’ve always been terrible with names,"

SAME TWIN. SAME.

Luci: *Explains something*

Alex: Blah blah proper name, place name, backstory stuff

CAN I PET THE DAAAAWWWGGG TOO? 😞✨

WOAH WOAH WOAH LET'S GOOOO HE'S HERE?!

It makes me so happy that he stepped back.

Bar's in hell but I know men irl wouldn't do that

"He had no idea how they’d pull it off. They had no plan, leverage or time but none of
that mattered. He’d burn the whole system down before he let them take her choice away.
If there was even a sliver of a path forward, he’d find it for her."

HMMMMMMMMMMMM NEEDTHAT

CHILL THE FK DOWN ALEX OR I'LL START WANTING YOU TOO

GREEN FLAG GREEN FLAG GREEN FLAG GREEN FLAG WHOLE FKING FOREST

I'm not getting good vibes from Markus. Help—

WELL DAMN

Pre read: I can't wait to go through this one. I absolutely love dystopian books. Plus, it has a zombie apocalypse and the MMC looks like Carlos Oliveira so I need to satisfy my Resident Evil heart.

DNF. I can't do this anymore. 😭