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what a cooky place im in
i’ve got an eyebrow up and im clutching my bag

well, i’m beginning to feel for the girl
and things are interesting for a change

everyone is rooting for you, why aren’t you rooting for yourself??!

he’s loving chilé so far
also starting to make a comment on the people. before this, much of his observations are focused on the landscape and the logistics of their travel

che, i’m charmed

yawning myself to tears if I’m being honest, and this is coming from the biggest character sketch fan. this should be up my alley. and it’s not. peak

extremely gripped for the first third, but now i feel a little out of my depth. now i’m third wheeling two music buffs who are going back and forth about technicalities i can’t appreciate because it’s so over my head.

THEN he said there’s a minority of women capable of understanding, appreciating and supporting men in their pursuits. When he does describe these “clever” women he says they know how to balance between the values of the good old days where women looked at their men like they were god and loving them was less about love more about devotion and more modern aspects

Word count capped me. Anyways, he talks about how fundamentally out of line men and women are socially, how men’s interests in politics, patriotism, society, philosophy is too fictional, abstract and unrealistic to women who’s world is their home, and the sustenance of their children and family, and who want and i quote “a luxurious and posh life” and don’t understand men’s sacrifices for their politics.

I’m so disappointed. I picked up two of Mostafa Mahmoud’s books ahead of an essay I wanted to write on his philosophy and depth of knowledge. While his book سواح في دنيا الله started off with great promise and really charmed me with his way of thinking of faith and religious identity, this one pissed me tf off.

The chapter “Majnun’s Father Bids Him Farewell” is so beautiful I’ve not been able to move on from it for two days and I’ve copied it out in full in my journal. Nezami Ganjavi I literally never doubted your game

as for her husband
that poor man she wed
he hasn’t spent a night in layli’s bed
she’s been a wife to him for a year
but you still have all her love, never fear
and if she lives a thousand years without you
nothing will ever make her yield to him, or doubt you

leyli’s father gave her to ebn salam. rip to majnun, this is gonna drop kick him into the afterlife

helen of troy and layli in a face card contest. go!

i mean i knew majnun was something else but flipping hell. need to see this baddie now.

chapter titled “The Beholder” is one of my favourite bits of writing and I read it on a train running from Bansko to Septemvri. Alice Smith I was not familiar with your game!

“Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.”

KENDRICK COME HERE, WRITE THIS DOWN

ive got an eyebrow raised

you already know a Nina Simone chapter is gonna get me. I love Dr Nina Simone like she’s my blood relative.

im washing dishes. the listening resumes

“What I really want to do is say that life is impossible, and the lie we tell ourselves is that it is too short. Life, if anything, is too long. We accumulate too much along the way. Too many heartbreaks, too many funerals, too many physical setbacks. It’s a miracle any of us survive at all.”

took a break from an unsuccessful writing sprint only to get a masterclass on how it’s supposed to be done. foul, but fair. fair, but foul.

“I don’t know how to be honest enough to say that there isn’t a place for kids like us, so we need to make our own, and nothing is more punk rock than that. Nothing is more punk rock than surviving in a hungry sea of white noise.”

can i not read just the epigraph and struggle …

Read a Crack Mag article he wrote. Then I journaled about it. Clearly I’m buying this guy’s shit.