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You boast of consciousness, but you are not sure of your ground, for though your mind works, yet your heart is darkened and corrupt, and you cannot have a full, genuine consciousness without a pure heart.

So far, enjoying the story although our narrator is a bit naive which is making the pacing a little slower than I’d like.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

There in its nasty stinking, underground home our insulted, crushed and ridiculed mouse becomes promptly absorbed in cold, malignant and, above all, everlasting spite.

I’m a few pages in and I see some parallels between Jeckyll and Hyde. Struggling against depravity, what is a conscience?

It just feels a bit self indulgent on the authors part. Connell and Marianne are be 18, I get it, they’re insecure because they haven’t established who they are yet.

But it’s not a complex idea, why did it need to be drawn out over 29% of the book?

I’m 25 and I know at 18 I was equally insecure but I wouldn’t want anyone to have to read my internal thoughts on that now because it feels so immature.