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I’ve been reading up a lot on SK history/politics and I’m glad I am because I think it is absolutely imperative to do so before/while reading this. All I can say so far is:

Wow.

Feeling ambivalent about the love & marriage chapter. I think I agreed with a lot of the thoughts on marriage and I found her attitude easier to ingest here (maybe I got used to it tho?), but still can’t but feel like this is an awful amount of pressure to put on your twenties. Feeling stressed about it all rather than enlightened

Can she please stop judging her 20something clients so harshly…. Like obviously you have perspective and insight they do not possess RELAX lady

Some of my fav stanzas from the set of love poems:

Of all the souls that stand create
I have elected one
When sense from spirit flies away,
And subterfuge is done;
——
Heart, we will forget him!
You and I, tonight!
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.
——
We outgrow love like other things
And put in the drawer,
Till it an antique fashion shows
Like costumes grandsires wore.

So far enjoying the tone of this a lot more than I thought I would

God this has gotten SO depressing 😭😭😭

I kept thinking the style of narration and dark humor/satire reminded me of something that I couldn’t put my finger on… then it hit me: Roald Dahl!

Such a strange parallel for my mind to make… I find her judgment of things incredibly juvenile which heavily juxtaposes the darkness of the theme and plot