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i’m already hooked, the writing is beautiful

right off the bat, the introduction was killer. looking forward to these stories!!!

thoroughly enjoyed the “the body snatcher”

finished Jekyll and Hyde… 5 stars, no notes. that was such a wonderful short story. wow.

“I believe that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension that we find paralyzing because we no longer hear our surprised feelings living. Because we are alone with the alien thing that has entered into our self; because we stand in the middle of a transition where we cannot remain standing.”

I am thoroughly lost and confused…

Iris really matches N.’s freak and I love that

Oh Lily…

Oh Lily…

Some thoughts: Selden is quickly losing points (he’s lowkey a freak and not in a good way); Gerty is gay as hell; I think Lily would be a Laufey fan

“The future shadowed their present, like the sun coming through the many-veined transparent vine leaf; a criss-cross of lines making no pattern.”

“An obliging thrush hopped across the lawn; a coil of pinkish rubber in its beak. Tempted by the sight to continue her imaginative reconstruction of the last, Mrs. Swithin; she was given to increasing the bounds of the moment by flights into the past or future; or sidelong down corridors are alleys.”

Oh Woolf, how quickly you make me fall in love with a character.

if lily and selden don’t end up together i’m going to riot…

I already adore Lily Bart <3

Nabokov write a normal book challenge: level difficult

Grandma came to clear EVERYBODY out, oh my god this shit is wild

What is this guy going on about??

part 4 was really something. I appreciate Van’s (and Nabokov’s) considerate prose when not on gruesome and grotesque subjects. such interesting thoughts that Time and Space provoke!