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from altruistic to seeking within ourselves to exploring sexuality to wealth to hedonism is not as great as you’d think it’d be!!! anyway I rly went in this book blind didn’t expect the whole titty sucking part

*to the tune of Fairytale of New York* Siddhartha was swinging, all the drunks they were singing, we kissed on a corner, then danced through the night 🎵

oh hector’s parents and wife’s laments are so……deeply poetic and sad

but Achilles’ lament about Patroclus tho

girl (also Achilles rly ate once he’s all murderous damn, Anakin Skywalker-esque)

I’m at THAT chapter where ********* dies 😩

18/12 - resuming where we’re left off now that we’ve finished Middlemarch

(page 818 out of 888)

oh Dorothea, bless you.

finally reaching Part 8 - Sunset & Sunrise omg

now the drama has unfolded,,,,now

starting to understand the politics of it all after, gasps, researching about the reform act itself

the gasps being gasped (also lol at chapter L)

ohhh the political drama of this whole new hospital thingy

god help me why am I reading another book I am GREEDY

minerva the goddess that you are

lowkey enjoying the politics of this town like they’re all so gossipy

girl I am actually hooked

growing on me slightly and it’s almost over yesss

“to consecrate the whole of the minute Mamma would grant me to the sensation of her cheek against my lips, as a painter who can have his subject for short sittings only prepares his palette, and from what he remembers and from rough notes does in advance everything which he possibly can do in the sitter's absence” oh the prose

it really feels like you’re reading tv shows like Gilmore Girls or Everwood, it’s so cozy

I love melodrama

“Everyone loved you, Wyn,” I say.
He looks at me through his lashes, his mouth curling. “No, Harriet. They wanted to hook up with me. That’s not the same thing. I never fit there.”

noooo let me go back to my classics I don’t like it here (coming from someone who has the same experience) (I got the ick)

I wasn’t able to continue reading because I was going through my own heartbreak and this book lowkey triggered me and gave me hope of reuniting with my ex but I’m over that loser now so here I am, able to actually consume this!!