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“They made my own life drown me.”

I’m reading this “Not my style” in a Samantha Jones voice. I hope that’s intended

Mark Renton IS Carrie Bradshaw, thank god someone said it

“I have met men, not just in Ireland, who are happy to say that they don’t read women. They. Just. Can’t.” screaming bc Anne is reading my mind with this essay

“I must not spend the Summer alone, taking strange walks and trying to electrocute myself.” Words to live by

“It’s so silly that we have become pen pals when we spend all day together…. Maria told me recently that she wishes somebody would take the time to write her letters. She suggested we all start writing to each other. That would be very nice, but I’m not about to start writing six letters a night to people I see every day. It’s only special when it’s for her.”

“Which just goes to show how you mustn’t trust a scrupulous realism, that sometimes sloppy fantasy comes nearer the true state of things.” this just made me so sick

this is breaking my heart tbh

Absolutely loving so far

“You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.” ohhhhhhhhhhhh ok crying

“You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.” save me Rilke save me

“It was like God had put his hand on my head and filled me with the most intense desire I had ever felt, not desire for another person, but desire to bring something into being that had never existed before.”
immediately stand by me “It’s like God gave you something, man. All those stories that you can make up. And he said: This is what we got for you, kid, try not to lose it.”

what does it mean to abhor the contemporary novel and then continue writing contemporary novels. concerning

reading this rn bc I need something familiar enough but nothing that I’ve already read and uhhh she’s just talking about problems with Dublin. excuse me sally can we do this later

I thought this could help me and instead I feel so so so sick

loving the comparisons here. Maybe if Chaucer had a better soundtrack I’d be more into him

“The Irish dimension in Trainspotting is a significant element in the book, and it deserves to be properly understood” and I’m ready for that

this is going to be interesting for work book club to say the least

“Working is nice for a while, but in the long run, it turns you into a pile of shit-covered garbage.” very cool

must go swimming asap

when she said Mrs. Owen sent a postcard after the war I sat up in the bath and my eyes got wide as if I were a cartoon character. this is a silly funky book so far

doesn’t matter what else happens in my day because I’ve had a lovely morning with Adam Haslett stories

I hope adam haslett can feel how much I love reading his work

I can’t stop reading this and saying “this is CRAZY” out loud. it’s crazy. I love medicine

Wilfred Owen starting a club in the hospital “which studied the area around the hospital geologically, botanically, and economically”…. Sara thinks I can’t be an atheist bc I think about Wilfred Owen too much

regeneration mention! Huge for me

damn Edward Marsh was doing everything for these guys…. Siegfried I’ve missed you. itching to reread regeneration rn

William Butler Yeats had two sisters that studied under William Morris. more about this please

oh rupert. Not the infected mosquito bite

“Brooke would write the definitive poem in praise of the war, and Sassoon would not only repudiate the war but write some of the fiercest poems condemning it. Brooke was then famous and lionized, Sassoon still comparatively unknown. Sassoon would have been anxious not to seem like a fan, Brooke anxious not to behave like a star.” god…. finding out Sassoon was a year younger than Brooke is so…..