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I volunteered to vet books donated to the school library. If you live in Lubbock and would like to donate books to a public middle school, message me and I'll pass them on to the the librarian.

"Not a happy season. Not a happy time. Not in the history of the world and not in the personal lives of many."

Joyce Carol Oates is scripture

Reading this series has been an act of self harm. A total at home lobotomy.

Seeking similar recommendations please

"A bad salad pisses me off." Same

"First, she attacked Robin Morgan for publishing an excerpt of SCUM Manifesto in the collection Sisterhood is Powerful without her permission and without payment. Valerie’s original letter to Robin joked, “If you can’t write, anthologize. Keep plugging, Baby. Valerie Solanas.”"

Out of all the wild shit she said this killed me

"....How does one hate a country, or love one? ...I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, ... but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one’s country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing."

"The real threat to American democracy, as Diderot had also suggested in his Essay on Seneca, came less from foreign powers than from the unintended consequences of future success: luxury goods, the rise of class tensions, political corruption, venality, and, in the worst scenario, perhaps even a dictator."

Venality = susceptibility to bribery

What’s up, twat? Missing your ’tard?

I'm starting every text/email to my bf with this, Gary Shteyngart said it was okay (encouraged even)

The weirdest part of this book isn't the lame, unlikeable cheating idiot of a protagonist, it's a rando character named Ted Bandy who predates Ted Bundy's killing spree by 14 years.

"I’m a bit of a Socialist in my way, you know, and I can’t think why fellows can’t share their women instead of killing them. What difference does it make? You can get your fun just the same. A lovely woman isn’t like a motor tire, she doesn’t wear out. The more you use her the better she goes."

This was published in 1938 😳

‘Of course I knew you never loved me as much as I loved you,'

‘I'm afraid that's always the case,' he said. ‘There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.'

😭

"He was a brasseur d'affaires, a stockbroker I suppose you call it in English; and he had a wife and family, and he was earning a large income. He chucked it all to become a painter. He just went off and settled down in Brittany and began to paint. He hadn't got any money and did the next best thing to starving."

Cutton gossips the plot of the Moon and the Sixpence as he ponders his future as a poor artist

"Because I kept fucking up, because it seemed so hard not to fuck up, I lived a life where I had less than what I desired. So instead of wanting more, sometimes I just made myself want even less. Sometimes I made myself believe that I wanted nothing, not even food or air. And if I wanted nothing, I’d just turn into a ghost. And that would be the end of it."

Read because therapy is too expensive and unavailable

the literomancer made me cry

My attempt at literomancy: Cori anagram coir, fiber from the outer husk of the coconut, used for making ropes and matting. You can also make the word orc.

Maybe I should brush my hair?

"He had not been aware of my one rule: I decide what I am capable of."

Miller is amazing.

"In the 1920s, W.E.B. Du Bois started binge-reading Karl Marx."

100 years later and I'm doing the same

Just finished the introduction. It was 48% of the book. Goddamn.