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reading The Dollmaker’s Ghost and woah did that collection instantly become an instant GOAT 4 me

Her past had been like her present—intolerable—and since she knew death was anything but forgetfulness, she used the little energy left her for pondering color.

All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I dont know why, but I do know that the universe never began.

Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

Don’t know if I’ve ever started a book with a more fire opening

divination/synchronicity: this and last book allude to The Petrified Forest, a play/movie I’ve never heard of!

stoked to finally read Eve Babitz. loving the lyrical prose, diamond sharp. LA nostalgia: wish that I was riding my bike at dusk through those streets again. warm, sardonic, clear-eyed.

But "delicate," I thought to myself, turning it around and around in my mind like a dream of jacarandas.

divination/synchronicity: this and the last book I read both featuring a fateful tarot card reading.

the brilliant headlights pouring before them, a moment's glimpse of them, no more. In the cold the sound vanishes, then even the distant red of tail lights is gone. Silence. Overhead perhaps the faint noise, brushing the stars, of a plane.

Started this in April, let’s finish it 🌴