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"Sade writes like the Ayn Rand of sexual violence." insane burn. jawdropping. i'd kill myself

"Rousseau is one of those artistes who rapturously extols the ennobling effect of manual labor, which he has never done, and is not offering to do."

no mention of diderot's softcore nun porn... sad

"To read Clarissa requires the patience God gave a sea sponge"

"[Samuel] Richardson was the opposite of a man's man. All his life, he preferred the company of women and the manners of women; he sincerely believed they were morally superior to men. Women loved Richardson back ... This love was platonic, but Richardson didn't mind..."

would estrogen have saved him. would estrogen have saved him

"It is hard not to enjoy Crusoe's steady mastery of his island" DOUBT! X TO DOUBT! IT WASN'T HARD AT ALL!

okay fine i did miss him. “i’m the vampire lestat. remember me?” bestie i could never forget

look i’m not saying i condone it but i think if my sister was deliberately the catalyst to me remembering the most traumatic thing to ever shape my life and then she also got with the guy i was in love with while my marriage fell apart and i just had all this information now. well id be on the news

psych wards will be like “is anyone else gonna strip autonomy from this already distressed and frightened person” and not wait for an answer

ty calling harold “a friend of ours” ten pages after harold called ginny a bitch in front of the whole town. men you will die by my hands

all of these essays could use more space but the lear one is good. yknow what yeah nature and the cosmos ARE queer. “Either Lear’s cosmos is unhinging or the unfixity of its parts is becoming perceptible … an elemental surge upends the sheltering fictions of human knowledge.”

"The difference between Corneille and Racine is that Corneille came first and Racine is also a town in Wisconsin."

WISCONSIN MENTIONED!

"Harold Bloom has called [Aphra] Behn a 'fourth-rate playwright.' This is very unfair: Aphra Behn is a second-rate playwright. Also way cooler than Harold Bloom."

coroner's gambit. let's all die

i like can’t read the jess and ginny scenes right now i’m fucking going through something

DOES ANYONE EVER THINK ABOUT ROSE COOK.

we are not talking enough about this being the best book ever written

well, i am two weeks behind, but my favorite new songs of march are "masher" and "horseradish road." (favorite already-known song of march, of course, being "golden boy." 10/10 song)

“the assumption that trans life is a specifically modern phenomenon, in sharp contrast to the apparently timeless stability of cisgender modes of identity and embodiment,”

oh kill em dr. gordon kill em

"If 'the purpose of a system is what it does,' then the purpose of IP law is to help rent extractors extract rent, and any benefit to creative workers or creativity is an incidental, regrettable side effect."

"the people who lived just a little too soon to live forever" argh.

FOURTH WALL BREAK LMFAO?

WHATEVER, DICKHEAD!!!!

if jess ate this girl’s face off like hannibal lector i’d still be on her side

i WILL become an audiobook listener. i MUST become an audiobook listener at my menial labor job where they let me have headphones in. i am NOT too attention-deficit for this. i am SWIFT and BEAUTIFUL and CAPABLE OF AUDITORY PROCESSING

physical noise wrung from me by chapter 18 livermore california

why's the football story holding hands a little with the vampire lestat. "the point of play is to distract yourself from play being the point"

intermission part 2 being interspersed with ads for the voyager (car) when nine is a voyager . i feel insane

"...so they were like "fuck it" and made a lake out of it. that moment heavily influenced the geopolitical climate of Sports Authority Field at Mile High for centuries. indeed, it

--Is that a statue of Sir Walter Raleigh

yeah

--Why

is there any explanation you would possibly find satisfactory

--No"

this might be the only story.

"i firmly believe that on a long enough scale of time, we could see a kroger in oregon"