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"He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James.
"No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs Cadwallader [ . . . ]
"Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains."

the scream I let out

book (The Story of a Family) 1 complete . . .
ngl it has crossed my mind: what did Tolstoy think??

Book One complete! this upcoming meeting with the starets is giving me heartburn.

I have 8 other books I’m reading right now but, sure starting another 500 page book makes sense 😃

"What answer was possible to such stupid complimenting?"

"She likes giving up."
"If that were true, Celia, my giving-up would be self-indulgence, not self-mortification. But there may be good reasons for choosing not to do what is very agreeable," said Dorothea.

okay now I am for real starting Middlemarch

It is possible, as everybody knows, to have such memories from an even earlier age, from say two, which will continue erupting throughout one's life like points of light in the darkness, like a fragment torn out of a vast canvas which, except for this one tiny corner, has faded and disappeared.

one year my grandma (z"l) bought me a sweatshirt that read, "I put the 'fun' in dysfunctional!" anyway, I miss that sweatshirt (and my grandma)

He first saw and got to know his father only after his majority, when he came to our neighborhood with the object of settling the mater of his inheritance with him. [ . . . ] The young man was flabbergasted; he suspected dishonesty and fraud, was beside himself, and was almost like one demented.

let us suppose only for an instant, that Fyodor Pavlovich, despite his notoriety as a ne'er-do-well, was nevertheless one of the boldest and most sharp-witted men of that transitional period before the age of enlighten-ment, whereas in actual fact he was nothing but a nasty little clown.

you guys are gonna be so sick of my smug ass bc I actually read War and Peace TWICE this year! I read from my physical copy and from a chapter-a-day email newsletter, the final missive is in two days HAHAHAHA!!!

hahaha I am still a sicko!! this is my 9th read!

hahaha wtf!

2026's chapter-a-day book!

I would think of the blown lilac, and the Happy Valley.These things were permanent, they could not be dissolved. They were memories that cannot hurt. All this I resolved in my dream, while the clouds lay across the face of the moon, for like most sleepers I knew that I dreamed.

I am not someone who wishes I wish I could read books again for the first time. I am someone who wishes I read books earlier in my life so I could revisit them, grow my life around them. anyway, Tanith Lee’s work is what I wish I had read so much sooner.

Tolstoy name drop!

His name is Silver.
How metallic.
Yes. It stands for Silver Ionized Locomotive Verisimulated Electronic Robot.

this is fine but I only want to read about other people reading war and peace right now so . . .

If you have the courage to take it, there is a way to gain your desires without disparagement.

The strength of her own relief surprised her: she had not known that she was afraid to see her future husband. To acknowledge it would have been to admit that she could not escape this marriage.

month of rereads lfg

here for the essays on Tolstoy

switching to audio so I have something on listen to as I sew my quilt squares.