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I don’t even wanna read this rn but Libby says it’s now or never

“Luísa’s parents also divorced. Once she told me a big argument happened because one of them seasoned the tomato salad with fine salt rather than coarse salt.”

Getting ready ferda movie except this book is actually so boring rn maybe it will get better

Colorado Trail mentioned.. I think this is a sign

“The distraction left me feeling worse” yuuup

In February 2009 I was in first grade

I was in Paris one year ago today! Her experiences sound so similar to mine.

Sayuri!!!!!

Cats, books, and beer where at!!

“Mapping is an act of demarcation which creates boundaries and constructs identities. Geography, as a language, is imbued with spatial metaphors revealing the exercise of power… As a practical instrument of colonial power, the map enabled access to ‘new’ lands.”

“Describing diversity by means of a category such as species is to standardize diversity. Diversity is dynamic, not static.”

“The idea of the diverse people of the north as primitive is racist. It is a self-affirming and self-congratulatory construct which places Euro-American culture at the pinnacle of civilization. It justifies subjugation in the form of manifest destiny.”

“If other people knew about it, the sickness would become real and I would have to spend my life being a sick person. This could only interfere with my other ambitions, such as achieving enlightenment and being a fun girl.” Hahaha.

“It would have been dramatic to introduce capitalization at such a moment of tension.” Hahaha

“His manner was cool and detached in a way that suggested sexual brutality.” Hahahaha oh frances

Sounds like Marohn just wants to live in Disneyland /s

“What do the music of Bach, Depeche Mode, and John Cage fundamentally have in common?” I’m so excited to find out.

Wow, I miss Wyoming. Ohio simply cannot compare.

“A vague melancholy set in. I think they were wondering why they were wearing themselves out trying to survive from day to day in this alien land where only the grave awaited them. But they didn’t talk about it. They no longer chatted endlessly about nothing, but came and went in silence, slowly as if weighed down by inevitability.” Basically us as humans trying to suppress the effects of ecological devastation

“In that case, what were men for?” Hahaha

“I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want but the very thing I hate. Romans 7:15”

“I once heard someone say that my belief in Jesus makes them suspect that I intellectually suck my thumb at night.” Lol.

Ofc Holly is reading Naked Lunch

“Mother goose is as full of structural failures as human history.”

“How I wish people could share in my feelings that jury duty is one of the coziest experiences we have as Americans.” bruh

“Jury duty is a chance to participate in one of our country’s most satisfying systems.” HUH

The Dancing Dwarf story is a cross between Adventure Time, Ratatouille, and Rumpelstiltsken. So ya, it’s my favorite so far.

Montgomery County mention in chapter 1
Cleveland mention in chapter 2
Wassup

“There’s nothing on his walls besides an Aphex Twin poster. It’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92, an old album but not an old poster. I try not to imagine him googling and purchasing it online. Because when I do, I’m on the crest of an ick.” Lolol

There are two barns I pass on my commute that I think the computer engineer boyfriend would love to burn