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"Dear God, how was it possible? How had I, with the wings of youth and poetry, come to this? Art and travel and the glow of ideals--and now this! How had this paralysis of hatred against myself and everyone else, this obstruction of all feeling, this mud-hell of an empty heart and despair crept over me so softly and so slowly?"

Finally reading this one after years of being prejudice against Kerouac because of Bukowski, having now lived long enough to damn well form my own dislikes.

Incredibly interesting thus far.

Switched to the Maude translation from the Kropotkin and started over. I got halfway through the Kropotkin and was like, "Where the hell is Tolstoy?" A friend sent me a copy of the Maude translation and it is like reading an entirely new book, one actually written by Tolstoy (as I have read a lot of his other works but have been saving this one for a long time). Absolutely stunning so far and worth starting over.

Live long and prosper.

I had no idea this book would be so equally unsettling AND hilarious! Slow read but really enjoying it.

Where have you been all my life, you book of bones? I'm absolutely in love.

Thus far, I'm incapable of claiming another book so thoroughly examines marriage. Of course there are others, but at this depth? I'm not yet finished, but I currently can't think of one...

"The Grand Inquisitor" chapter is a masterpiece I will forever be thankful for. I'm in love with this book.