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تو راه برگشت از مجلس ترحیم بی‌بی این رو گوش دادم و تجدید میثاق کردم که تا زنده‌ام به سوی چیزهای عجیب برم...

Wow that took a dark turn

Of course it helps that I'm listening to the audio version :)

The greetings essay is too funny to be problematic for me😂

Thank goodness tokybook is up and running again so that I could hear the line "our love had the power to move bunks".

یعنی چه چرا tokybook بالا نمیاد حالا من چه کار کنم وسط کتابT_T

"Doesn't happiness seem...fake? Like it might be something someone invented. An impossible goal we'll never reach, just to keep us all quiet."

I feel like people who don't read this book, miss oit a lot.

Leonard Woolf had a pet marmoset!
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"Roshan-i-chasm-i-man,"
This is how Vita begins her letter after Virginia has blamed her for never beginning her letters with endearment. My heart was wrung.

Okay, Virginia, I think you should stop calling her dumb

"You will say, define beauty-
But no: I am going to sleep."

The correspondence between these two is the best I've stumbled upon!

"and he who could not summon strength to flee apart, was soon willy-nilly in the midst of the mêlée."

This is my favorite sentence ever.

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested". This book belongs to the third category. May you chew and digest and adore.

《Life slumbers. It needs to be roused, to be awakened to a drunken marriage with divine feeling. For feeling, young man, is godlike. Man is godlike, in that he feels.》

بعد بخش "برف" روحم گریست در مقابل شکوهش...

The voice of a young David Sedaris is delightful ^-^ The audiobooks of his I had previously listened to were more recent. He sounds more flat-toned here which is more to my liking:)

بالاخره اتفاق افتاد...Walpurgisnacht...همون قدر جادویی که انتظار داشتم:) کلاهم رو به احترامت بر می‌دارم، آقای مان!

"-They're graduate students..
-Exactly. Hiding from life in the most cuddling, insular, and self-aggrandizing way."

گاهی متن اصلی رو می‌خونم و گاهی ترجمه رو گوش می‌دم و هر دو، به مثابه‌ی کتب مقدس، پرابهت و دل‌نشین و آرام‌بخشه، با این مزیت که خیالت راحته در دنیای واقعی آثار مخربی نداره. دیگه چی می‌خوام؟ :)

I missed me some Russian:)

Oh, David :)

"مذهب همینه، باور کن، ترس از جایی که ترجیح می‌دیم توش نباشیم."

"بعضیا از بقیه گرسنه‌ترن، همین."

Visual perception never ceases to be mind blowing! Reading about it is killing me:))) again:)