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“Emerald, who'd dated men and women interchangeably since the seventeenth century, was too tired to get into a pan-femmes-are-queer-frauds squabble with a gay art boi.” miz lee koe you cannot be serious

#obsessed with this, oh my god, it is so lovely and warm and romantic… this bit, for one:
We are more together / than we know, how else could we keep on discovering / we are more together than we thought? / You are the known way leading always to the unknown, / and you are the known place to which the unknown is always / leading me back.
like damn maybe i do believe in love! etc etc.

theory is so unserious what do you mean “when the State capitol was in danger, a goose woke up the sleeping philosophers. it was Hobbes.” is a real sentence

“War obviously presided over the birth of States; right, peace and laws were born in the blood and mud of battles. … It was born together with the famous innocents who died at break of day.” bro this goes hard as fuck

woah… i was cruising… having fun… then my man pulled out “once disciplinary constraints had to both function as mechanisms of dominance and be concealed to the extent that they were the mode in which power was… exercised, the theory of sovereignty had to find expression in the juridicial apparatus and had to be reactivated by judicial codes” my ass was strapped on the roller coaster. breathtaking truly.

“i’ve therefore adopted the guerrilla method of moving the lecture to nine-thirty in the morning in the belief that… students are no longer capable of getting up at nine-thirty.”

i want so badly to be like “wtf is this man talking about i don’t understand a single thing” but that would be doing myself a disservice i think. instead i will say it has been interesting learning how to puzzle out what mr and mr frenchman are on about. as usual i think it’s the applicability of the theory i struggle with more than anything.

true to her academic roots, we are at the portion of the book where miss rebecca is getting lecture-y

my ass reading this while preparing to go to c*******e: 🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥

“and so, watching the new year dawn in the sky, you are stirred by a sense of utter newness, although the sky looks no different from yesterday’s.”

yknow i gotta say i was expecting more from bell hooks

oh the writing style is really giving bachelor’s thesis atp

200 e-pages of gushing over this noble and selfless and heroic boy GIRL GET UP!!! what happened to wizard feminism!!!!

so far this is reminding me of that tweet that goes like “so is [piece of media] good or ‘gay people deserve bad movies too’ good”. and also of that time pree (accurately) pointed out that i don’t usually like texts that are overtly lyrical. yeah

yknow i meant to DNF this (the first chapters felt very much like dark clouds gathering) but dr A went off about how good it was after the preliminary worldbuilding so here i am again. and she’s right (again)

yknow i think this book gets a lot of flak for its whole “nothing in this lousy world is my fault, don’t you see that? i don’t want it to be and it can’t be and it won’t be” attitude but honestly it’s a little refreshing to deal with such Canonical brazenness

damn i wish i was a white guy with nothing to do in 1950s america too

oh this is such a fun read i swallowed half of this while on the mrt and on my phone (and i HATE reading on a small screen!!)

sometimes when poetry sits this heavily i think of dr A saying how sometimes you just need to find one poem from the corpus that you understand and work from there

i love short stories!!!! underrated form!!!! wish there was a course or something i could’ve taken on them

we’re so back baby (this isn’t that good i’m just happy to have time to read again)

incredible irony in reading these first few pages while scarfing down a mcdouble mccheeseburger

so far every poem has been like a mouthful of fish (you chew on it and then attempt to pick the bones out of your teeth)

kind of ridiculous that despite the fruitful number of chinese academics in the family this is how i’m learning about china in the 80s

ok i haven’t started reading for real but i flipped it open during a boring ass meeting and landed on a very curious page about a “singaporean club” so now i’m itching to start