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Mary Gaitskill reveals the meaning of life:

“She cried until she was sure she was absolutely finished. Then she got up, put on her shoes and went out for a walk.”

Fever dream

First short story complete. I’m scared

I am really enjoying this

“The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocuous ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed”

“She had seen our concert in Brussels in 1976 when a teenager and vowed to make me clothes”

I can’t

“I received a mysterious package from Belgium, a white box tied with a black silk ribbon…they were sent by the Flemish designer Ann Demeulemeester and became my performing shirts”

WHAT?!!! Jaw drop

Patti discovering Rimbaud at 15 🤝 me reading Wattpad at 15

Lfg

“I have often been struck by how misogynistic most successful women are. They are eager to say how silly, boring, superficial, or tiresome they find other women, and how much they prefer the company of men”

Okkayyy Susan giving us the original description of a pick-me in 1972

“Perhaps because of having been their oppressors for so long, few men really like women (though they love individual women), and few men ever feel really comfortable or at ease in women’s company”

This was 50 pages of Dumas shitting on Italians but I love it

Pacing is perfect and low key great for learning some French Revolution history

Locking in

Low key not what I was expecting

Bought this book two years ago and it’s the first time I’ve gotten past the first page 😛

I’m so invested

Obsessed with the parallels between Agua Viva and this book

Lori: I’m depressed and can’t feel joy so I’m not ready for you yet
Ulisses: I too am working to get ready for you…by trying to not fuck other women 🙂‍↕️

““Not understanding” was so vast that it surpassed all understanding - understanding was always limited. What was good was having an intelligence and not understanding”