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Big fat terminal branch in the evolution of English literature

Do you think when Hypatia was getting murdered she was granted a vision of just how specifically perfect the version of her story that survives would be for our period’s specific neuroses?

Egregious self insertion

Need a strong agency principle to be operative to not declare Arturo Belano a bad luck charm and throw him overboard like Jonah.

ANOTHER instance of anti-Galician bigotry smh

I think this book is slowly turning me into a frog

Of course its Xochitl that actually does the work

Is college just a really complex and expensive way to teach people that all ideas can be classified as left or right wing? Discuss

Ok the painter’s interview was fascinating

I hate them aaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllll

Exhausting

Is there any more natural combination than burnout cult leader and a guy who is probably a little bit a Nazi but only due to several compounding accidents of birth?

Autofiction continues to be fentanyl for people who write

Was trying to figure out where this mix of material determinism and social conservatism was coming from and then I remembered everyone in the book is Slavic

I would bet there is a fairly large and untapped market for groups of men to be kidnapped in this way.

This book is very cult-brained

Crazy plug for social conservatism as an anti-suicide measure

Ok the translated website was brilliant

Ah the faint stench of Malthus, where perhaps might this lead?

Come for the snails, stay for online interactions that I pray will date this book in the very near future

One page in and I, too, am tired of Yeva

I might not be cut out for this

Am… I the detective here?

Fighting my base instincts that are saying I should root for this guy to get killed

Of course he is a spreadsheet guy

Sorry, Bolaño, but there isn’t enough magical realism in heaven or earth to convince me that any of the men here depicted help wash the dishes.

Turns out the biggest innovation of the internet was to make it so we could all access the stupid ramblings of random members of our communities without circumventing censorship bans.

Censorship bans being bad does not necessarily mean that this dynamic is good.

Without being too overtly traditional, one does wonder why a society in possession of several proven traditions that say “hey don’t be a gluttonous lecher” would then produce Internal Thoughts of the Gluttonous Lecher, Parts 1-900.

I’m not saying they can’t or shouldn’t, I’m just asking why they WOULD.

This book is just https://xkcd.com/356/ but all the nerds you bag have terrible taste.

Sulla: is a tyrant

Random Roman schoolboy: “Someone bring me my KNIFE”