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“as the last to arrive, she found herself in a situation in which the balance of power was already established, and was able to form her own judgement from the large amount of material at her disposal”

oh this lady’s BAD !! 😂

almost done w this and onto cooler and more interesting books for my goodreads friends to interact with, I promise

crack as a reward? or crack to help him focus on the work ahead?

he’s been so mean to his mom omg i’m gonna be sick !!!!

‏"No, I will never again, as I used to like to do so much, delude myself into thinking that Siddhartha is wise"

taking all my self control not to point out the words “coconut tree” and “kamala” come up repeatedly in this book

you could be completely serious like you’re in the great place and whoosh pull back just like holding a little tiny toy castle in the palm of your hand - then go inside it. and it’s real again. get all serious inside your little castle

the bag i wanted was beyond reason - something to hold my poems, twice as big as the universe and it must be androgynous. cause, you know. and u found it: thought and white, and resembling something id wanted a long long time ago

it starts when we are children - helpless but aware of things, enjoying what is around us

reacting reacting reacting…

the wise are who they are

why was the obsession with employment so great that people were paid to pretend to do something rather to be allowed to do something creative and life giving ?

‏"Last night I told him I couldn't take any more, that you two were playing with me, like a tennis ball, you hit me from both sides, it's not right, Manú, it's not right."

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this mate is like a pardon, something incredibly conciliatory…. a mate is like a periods and a space. you take one and then you can start a new paragraph

it’s so purple to be ignorant

apologizing to anyone who has 2-3 beers with me in the next month because I WILL be bringing this book up

might things finally look up for ol stoner???

love reading books written by people who have surely never encountered a tweet because it shows ! there’s just this specific cadence of internet speak even in BOOKS lately and it’s like why would i read a book that sounds like a TikTok caption …. that’s already what MY consciousness sounds like …. it’s giving cultural flattening …

on hour 5 of 9 hour layover in bucharest … been subsisting on literature and vending machine crisps

“digital beauty banishes any negativity of the non-identical… inside the autoerotic visual space, there can be no sense of wonder. the only thing human beings still like are themselves”

“much is said in our age about irony and humor especially by people who have never been capable of engaging in the practice of these arts, but who nevertheless know how to explain everything”

can’t wait to watch the 2008 julianna moore adaptation

coming back to God

"do not take pleasure in talking a lot. do not say foolish things or things that are intended to cause laughter. take pleasure in excessive or unrestrained laughter."

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