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“you became people in a book I had read a long time ago”

“perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound”

“The head was mine, but not to use, not to think with, only to remember and not too much remember.”

“What's the use of not being wounded if they scare you to death?”

its alright

“We had defended ourselves since memory against everything and everybody, considered all speech a code to be broken by us, and all gestures subject to careful analysis; we had become headstrong, devious and arrogant.“

“Ivy sang the dark sweetness that Pauline could not name; she sang the death-defying death that Pauline yearned for”

“The smoke from their cigarettes they inhaled deeply, forcing it to fill their lungs, their hearts, their thighs, and keep at bay the shiveriness, the energy of their youth. ”

RAHHHHHHH

poo tee weet

“He has had to cross three international boundaries in order to reach Chicago. The United States of America has been Balkanized, has been divided into twenty petty nations so that it will never again be a threat to world peace. Chicago has been hydrogen-bombed by Angry Chinamen.”
lmao we are not far from this

ummm

when is it gonna end

interesting how the narrator is omniscient and changes his tone when focusing on different characters but stays consistent throughout lowkey

exhilaratingly entertaining