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Maybe the best book I’ve read all year.

The two plays about Oedipus: complex.

This has been one of the books most frequently recommended to me by scholars of 17th-century Puritanism, and now I know why.

It’s marvelous.

This is very unlike the Disney version.

Excellent. Wish I had written this

There’s something profoundly indulgent reading melancholy tales from Mother Russia while staring down the barrel of another lockdown.

“He was looking like a minor prophet about to rebuke the sins of the people.”

“Socking cops is a thing that should be done sparingly, if at all.”

“…not to be confused with my Aunt Agatha who eats broken bottles and is strongly suspected of turning into a werewolf at the time of the full moon.”

“‘Hullo aged relative’ I began…
‘Hullo to you, you young blight on Western civilisation.’

I have no idea what’s going on.