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all the power to the internet archive!!

'Only through your own strength can we confront you, Europe.'

'What people call the modern age, Mr. Tollenaar, is really the age of the triumph of capital. Everybody alive in this modern age is ordered about by big capital; even the education you received was adjusted to capital's needs, not your own. So too the newspapers. Everything is arranged by it, including morality, law, truth, and knowledge.'

'Once you have come to know your people, sir, you will discover a source of material for your writings that will never dry up, an eternal source of material. Didn't Kartini, in one of her letters to her friend, once say that to write is to work for eternity. If the source is eternal, maybe then the writing will be eternal also.'

oh no :(((

'Oh, Gus, why do you compose in a language that your mother cannot understand? Write the story of your love in the poetry of your ancestors so that mother and the whole country may sing them.'

yo what the fuck

Palakia Tree in My Head

i forget that everyone is much younger than they are in the show

don't ask why i'm rereading this

somehow the etymologies make the pain from the book more visceral

'But what is the opposite of fidelity? Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?'

[...] Robin's eyes met Professor Playfair's, he felt a deep, vinegary squirm of guilt in his gut.

Seriously considering moving to Storgraph for 2022. Will archive this account and all data by then!

Gina Apostol gets the Philippines right in all places.

Things are much clearer now than when I had to read for my critical theory class. I don't know why I'm so drawn to Lacanian psychoanalysis but I suspect it's because of its particular regard to language and subjectivity.

Very relatable college life content. Here for it.

Children. I love children.

I'm reading and it feels like a Tim Burton/Coraline-ish film.