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“I love the dead because we cannot let each other down anymore. I cannot fail you. I am thankful for a leaving that is permanent. It is one thing to be haunted by a life gone and another to be haunted by a life that spins on, happily, without you.”

Sometimes a book just finds you at the exact perfect time, and in a package you never would’ve expected

“Let some of my beloved elders tell it, and prayer is the only cloak that can never be torn from the shoulders of anyone it is placed upon. And so, made from the lips of a person who loves us, we’re all one good prayer from being royals, or something close.”

“And you are there, too.
All of your faces, though not as they were as children. Not as I remember them best, but I know they are your faces, and I know we are young again. Monuments. In my dreams we are monuments. We get to be somewhere that is ours, forever. A place no other hands can reach.”

Something about Hanif Abdurraqib’s prose, he’s gonna make you smile, seemingly effortlessly and yet with full realization that he has full mastery over language

What a way to end a chapter:
“He told his story accordingly, often interrupted by ejaculations.”

I love this book

This book is so cool because of how it just goes from fun quirky little romp and then seamlessly takes a hard left turn into genuine horror/thriller and completely upending any sense of security I have in what this story actually is (in the best way)

Kinda surprisingly hard to get through

Secured a class visit from the author 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Few delights like an author so clearly at play

God, the Irish never miss

Omg:
“Does one conclude that Montaigne had a smallish penis? Yes, indeed, because he confessed later in the same essay that nature had treated him ‘unfairly and unkindly’…”
Kind of iconic? But 😅😂

Look, it has its moments, but GOD why did our prof assign this book???😭😭😭😭😭

Book 1/12 for Comedian as Essayist class

Genuinely so infatuated with and intellectually stimulated by this book

“I don’t know what I am supposed to learn from reading books by people who are supposed to be like me but are only like each other except that I am not like either of them, or both of them. Any of them, actually.”

Time to finally finish this (by switching over to the audiobook cuz trapped in car)