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“I find that I can recognize other homeschooled souls in a crowd, almost as if there was a secret handshake or a tell; we have a certain temper of spirit that has been cooked out of everyone else.”

Imagine your rich friend has this philosophers paradise where there are no strict schedules and you can just like, lay under trees or count cats or play the cello all day. And then if your friend has to have a party they give you baskets of food so you can run away into the woods and you don’t have to socialize.
Also you live in England and have 5 weeks vacation.

I LOVE YOUNG HAWKES.

I’m so grateful for Russ Ramsey.

It’s sort of amazing how in just a few pages I went from totally on board to “nope.”

I don’t understand who I’m supposed to be falling in love with! Shipping the priest.

<spoiler> HOW is it simultaneously the end of the world and we are like, calling 70 year olds out of retirement and booking private jets but somehow have to still sit through a routine traffic stop with the local law enforcement????? </spoiler>

This time, sensitive-single-poetry-loving-outdoorsman is a park ranger in Yellowstone.

Luzhin: Thief !
Sonya: oh no!
Katerina Ivanovna: cough cough
Sonya: oh no!
Raskolnikov: yesssss
Sonya: oh no !

Raskolnikov: no
Porfiry: ok sure sure
Raskolnikov: no
Porfiry: ok
Raskolnikov: yes murder haha
Porfiry: what
Razumihin: what
Raskolnikov: death
Dunya: what
Pulcheria: what
Sonya: what
Rasmolnikov: haha
Porfiry: hm

Sad and beautiful and Dickensian

Did I seriously read this scene as a child or was I so naiive I just didn’t comprehend?

Gorgeous so far.

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