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Kinda silly, a little spooky :P

Very humorous hohoho. It seldom makes me laugh out loud but I do enjoy it like candy. What makes the book great, in my opinion, is the shifting of the tonal paradigm. It rests at a baseline of very lighthearted absurdity, but every third or fourth chapter, written without seem, will be one of the most beautiful and realistic love stories or a haunting description of the inside of a bomber under flak

Just finished the Tale of Melibeus. A work of prose in a collection of poetry. It’s prefaced by an argument the host (Chaucer) has with the landlord of the inn, who accuses Chaucer’s of “utter silliness” and “rhyming to the devil”.

The story is a a series of morals posed by the wife of the titular character, along with her many citations, in an attempt at calming Melibeus and preventing an all-out war.

02/08/24: it’s too difficult and requires much more research of contextual details than I am willing to endure in one sitting, so to speak. I’m going to come back to it in chunks, read some easier books, classics, and return to Ulysses in between. I’m doing the same thing with the Canterbury Tales but for an almost opposite reason.

Funny and sad! Very lonely guys banding together to be lonely together in an abandoned building near the Sardine house.

Good! Taking many notes and trying to become an anxiety free psychological super soldier.