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Re-reading for book club…oh joy and serotonin!

This is certainly not what Steinbeck intended, but I’m obsessed with Cathy. All the men suck, why wouldn’t I be charmed by a psychopathic, murderous whore?

Steinbeck spring has commenced

“She is not a girl. She is a block of stone.
She is a piece of wall.
She is something against which other things impact without her permission or understanding.” Fuuuuuuck

I get to read about pussy riot on the train tomorowwwwww

When giving Stalin’s daughter permission to leave the Soviet Union the in the 90s, one of Gorbachev’s attendants told her, “The Motherland will survive without you, but will you survive without the Motherland?”

Lenin’s wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, on hearing that revolutionary Fanny Kaplan would be executed for attempting to assassinate Lenin: “A revolutionary executed in a revolutionary country!” she wailed. “Never!”

This is fucking awesome

“…and just as he was on the point of realizing that Karataev had been killed, but just at that instant, he knew not why, the recollection came to his mind of a summer evening…and without linking up the events of the day or drawing a conclusion from them, Pierre closed his eyes, seeing a vision of the country in summer-time mingled with memories of bathing and of the liquid, vibrating globe.” Amidst war, this!

These people all suck. Helene dying before Andrei is bullshit. Newly hating Nikolai.

I am so high. Moscow has been taken. I am inconsolable.

Please please let Andrei be dead🙏🤞

Unbelievable how much I’m only reading for the first time! Unbelievable! My thesis knew nothing!

Oh no! Pierre is calculating the number of the beast again!

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