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“Freud summed it up beautifully when he somewhere remarked that psychoanalysis cured the neurotic misery in order to introduce the patient to the common misery of life.”

I'm going to give my next dog my full legal name. Just in case.

I almost stopped reading when the author admitted that he was a mouth breather.

Well that got confusing fast.

I really need to start flipping through the glossaries as soon as I start reading a book. There's a Scots dictionary in the back that would have been useful.

I absolutely hate the term "loving-kindness."

Man, this dude really likes butterflies.

"Slippers are designed to be slipped into without help from the hand. They are monuments to the hatred of bending down:"

Adorno claims that "when de Sade is read in the original no dictionary is needed."

"The habit of seeing kings accompanied by guards, drums, officers, and
all the paraphernalia which mechanically inspire respect and awe, makes
their countenance, when sometimes seen alone without these
accompaniments, impress respect and awe on their subjects; because we
cannot separate in thought their persons from the surroundings with
which we see them usually joined."

"The habit of seeing kings accompanied by guards, drums, officers, and
all the paraphernalia which mechanically inspire respect and awe, makes
their countenance, when sometimes seen alone without these
accompaniments, impress respect and awe on their subjects; because we
cannot separate in thought their persons from the surroundings with
which we see them usually joined."

I decided to follow Nabokov's suggested reading order of commentary-poem, but I think I'll ignore his advice to cut up the book and re-arrange the sections.

I should have read "Gargantua and Pantagruel" first.

Maybe I should have gone for a more readable translation instead of one that calls things "spooks."

"Transpontine" is a nice word.