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Everytime I give an old white man author a chance I end up reading a book where women don't speak, they only giggle and men get all sad that they have to beat their mistress for 15 pages. This is swill and only 119 pages thank god bc I'm incapable of bailing on books.

"violence turns anybody subjected to it into a thing"

F*** imperialism

At this point I've been convinced that I need to go hang out in a well.

There isnt a well in the world that Murakami has met and hasn't liked.

"The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it."

"Half the world is redoing its kitchens, the other half is starving."

"I realize we are living in an era where things are said with three times more resources, words, and complications than necessary."

I don't think I like this book.

"They were artists... Yes, I had heard of these people: they died insane, they died as paupers, no one much liked them except other people like themselves." Lollllll

"The future is an inhospitable place. So much so that nobody lives there."

"For decades the governing cry of our cities has been "Never speak to strangers." I propose that in a democratic city it is imperative that we speak to strangers, live next to them, and learn how to relate to them on many levels, from the political to the sexual. City venues must be designed to allow these multiple interactions to occur easily, within a minimum of danger, comfortability, and conveniently."

This book is not good

"know that for love, a bed is only a pretext; for dancing, a tune is only embellishment; and for struggle, nationality is merely an accident of circumstances."

I'm all about abundance mindset but I am already feeling the loss of this book ending so I'm so grateful this is only part 1. More cher. More!!!

"To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a difficiency disease" lol this book is wild

Loving the out of left field side bar absolutely ripping apart Republican Joan Didion and her narc snark.

"It was an old Pernambuco fisherman who taught me that. I was sitting on the sands of Itamaracá, with a pad of paper in my lap, finishing a watercolor. He came up behind me and watched for a moment: "Why are you doing that?" he asked, "You're never going to fit the sea in there!"

I just want this book to be over. Everyone is terrible

Nothing scarier than a person who weaponizes theory to absolve themselves from any accountability.

"Theory is an effete diversion. Its purpose is to increase the self-esteem of the theorists."

Perfect book for holiday brain rot. It is not good but I'm not well lol

"While [migrant] workers are declared illegal, the surplus value they create is never deemed illegal."

"The IMF is a predatory loan shark forcing conditions of market liberalization and state austerity as preconditions to receiving a loan, and using debt as a disciplinary mechanism to reorganize economies into bordered sites of resource extraction and labor exploitation." 👏👏👏

"I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death."

"If I need one thing more than another it's a whole new place to wake up in."