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I want to be enjoying this. Alas.

Just finished The Ruined Cottage and the grief the story evokes is mirrored by the grief that I spent so many years passing over Wordsworth and knowing it can’t be undone.

Slowest book reading of my life.

Every page of this book is stuffed full - a bible for a parallel universe.

Crawling through this colossus at like two pages per day… could still be done before 2027.

One of those books you grieve ending

Already enjoying the hell out of this.

“[…] if there were one event essential for life, […] we would recognize it first of all by the light, familiar from childhood and fairy tales, that suffuses it. Miraculously, for a brief spell, we find ourselves at the center of things and can decipher them.”