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Girlhood from Lispector

I’m taken back to that time I first read a Vargas Llosa (historia de Mayta) and I remember pausing after the first few lines thinking: ohhhhhh it’s gonna be really good


Sigh of relief; finally !!!!!

A rare moment that I’m loving every page

CLARICE 💝!!!!

YES FINALLY I GET TO READ THIS

Finest writing I’ve read in a while. It’s like the feeling when I read Llosa, Cusk, or Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water.

In short, I’ll read anything they write. Just damn good writing 🤌🏼

el boom 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Isabel 💜

“How to tell him that it would get better, that it would pass? A child who could only inhabit the present, with no idea of a future, its relief. ”

big brain energy!!!!

DELIGHTFUL

an arrangement of pithy sentences that evoke familiar cultural landscapes and references


so rlly good so far 😤

pilipinas, sobrang miss na miss na kita🤧🤧🤧

Freire 🤎🤎🤎

“But then literature is naught but guided dreaming, anyway”

JLB has the biggest big brain energy

Always good to revisit

“A lucky line here and there should not make us think any higher of ourselves,”

Finallllllly half way through Borges!!

dreamtigers🐅

"Precarity is a state of acknowledgement of our vulnerability to others." tru

Anna Tsing, like Glissant and John Berger, knows how to make magic with her sentences.

Vargas Llosa writing about how he “went mute with emotion” when he met Borges and Neruda 🥲🥲🥲

feels so comforting reading Vargas Llosa years later 🥲🤘🏼

What other writers fail to do in 200+ pages, Borges delivers in as little as 3 pages

yeah it's worth the hype

i'm constantly being SWEPT away!
"Repetition, moreover, is an acknowledged form of consciousness both here and elsewhere. [...]

The difficulty: to keep this growing pile of common places from ending up as dispirited grumbling — may art provide!

The probability: that you come to the bottom of all confluences to mark more strongly your inspirations."

I’ll inhabit Borges’ mind for a while

hello again gabo

I’d like all my mornings to be described by Cusk

“No one wants to speak of love unless it is for someone”

“When the book closes
the pages learn
and a pillow reads
what is in our heads.”
— 5 A.M

I’m ready to be swooned 💌💐🍃🥳👨🏻‍🎨

"I am a student of this phenomenon that makes time a shape shifter." [pg. 78]

"...that water seeks scale, that even your tears **seek the recognition of community.**" [pg. 78]

how can you not be transformed after reading that? thanks

“I want a land that doesn’t want me. I love a land that doesn’t exist.”

rlly rlly good so far (like so good I had to update my goodreads about it)