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“He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence”

a swarming, a teeming, a preamble, a measurement, a judgement, a weighing, a flourish, writing ‘undigested motions’, an effort, a trying, an experiment, a control which ‘liberates development’

“Ability in an essay is multiplicity, infinite fracture, the intercrossing of opposed forces establishing any number of opposed centres of stillness” - William Carlos Williams

“And even the unhappiest life has its sunny moments and its little flowers of happiness between sand and stone”

There are lots and lots and…well, lots of references to Nietzsche’s idea of the ubermensch, which is what the steppenwolf is clearly moulded on, so reluctantly I might have to return to Zarathustra afterwards. Dostoevsky is also mentioned multiple times, so Demons too must be resumed. Goddamn

“I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation- the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.”

Merely 20 pages in and I have already lost £20 on roulette thanks bro 🫶🏼

holy holy holy this is insanely magnificent

“the life of every man is a way to himself, an attempt at a way, the suggestion of a path. no man has ever been utterly himself, yet every man strives to be so, the dull, the intelligent, each one as best he can. each man to the end of his days carries round with him vestiges of his birth - the slime and egg-shells of the primeval world”

From the prologue I know this is going to be a solid 5 star 🫡

I like to start books and maybe eventually finish them :)