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diet infinite jest, but written by a smartass 24 year old (i still love it)

this is sorta my shit, i fear

ugly cried to “the worrying” by paul monette

“my stolen pal what do you need is it
sleep like sleep you want a pillow a cool
drink oh my one safe place there must be
something just say what it is and it’s yours”

i want to talk like raymond carver / i want to turn down the goddamn tv / etc etc

returned to the library. didn't finish, but i got what i wanted out of it (aka an overwhelming sense of "yeah we're in a similar moment now hahaha oops")

“‘thou mayest! thou mayest!’ what glory! it is true that we are weak and sick and quarrelsome, but if that is all we ever were, we would, millenniums ago, have disappeared from the face of the earth”

i should read the bible

i should take up tennis

fuck it

“but in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in tormented chase of that demon phantom that, some time or other, swims before all human hearts; while chasing such over this round globe, they either lead us in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.”

this book goes so hard a+ melville

“wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of bulkington.”

🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵