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none of these words are real anymore

entire chapter in french for no foreseeable reason

the concept of this being about the same college experience as the secret history is so funny

becoming the worst version of myself! ben and i are rereading this!

book cluuuub!!!!!

"let's not talk about it. let's never talk about it."

jake's friends: did you know the civil war started because lincoln was gay
jake: i want brett ashley so bad

this book couldn't happen today bc americans don't speak enough languages

"'listen to me- this business about a girl is a delusion, do you understand that word?'
'it's always a delusion when i see what you don't want me to see.'l

this man is a LOSER

ugh i wanna go back to monaco so bad

orpheus and eurydice mention

lowkey law school is a cult

"the evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened."

also everything in this book reminds me of covid

love the vague gesturing towards the narrator as character

i know she's not lumping catholicism in with mormonism and jehovah's witnesses rn....

giving amanda montell another shot after her other book pissed me off

baby's first camus

"a woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgement, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied to him, to run her through the body with his pen."

okay so i'm crying.

"'i am growing up,' she thought, taking her taper. 'i am losing my illusions, perhaps to acquire new ones.'"

waiting for bri to catch up for book club

max winterbourne should be on some sort of literary villains list why is he so awful

cackling at how "john the savage" pulls random phrases from shakespeare in his speech

just had a brainwave. Babitz is to Fitzgerald what Didion is to Hemingway (his literary child)