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Two hours left but back to Libby it went 😭
I'm checking it out again but there's a wait.

Oh I am having Feelings

So far the most unrealistic part of this book is having a supportive thesis advisor

How am I to the length of a normal novel and yet Fyodor Pavlovich still lives?
Ivan's interminable interlude made me nostalgic for Ishmael's Whale Facts.

This is... Extremely mid. I'd like less Cameron too, please.

Sure, Ivan, I'm sure these things definitely happened. And the 'Down with cis' bus is real too.

Is every Kerouac book about being in love with your oblivious best friend?

You know we'd call all these guys weeaboos nowadays.

>Claims to be anti-consumerism
>Spends a lot of time talking about climbing gear

>Claims to be anti-consumerism
>Spends a lot of time talking about getting fancy hiking gear

Like, I can sympathize as someone who's been in an REI, but it's one of the most glaring contradictions in the text between what the narrator advocates and what he does.

Beautiful prose about the world's most boring guy

It's truly astounding the sheer scale at which Britain and France succeeded in messing up the Middle East.

I support goddesses' wrongs

There are two plots going on here, and unfortunately I'm only really interested in the power playing of the gods part and not the human war part.

Nestor:
*insert Community gif of walking in on everything being on fire*

Nestor:
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...

During Califia's sadly still relevant spiel about the harm of sexual puritainism, he mentions the need to do more to address the larger problems, ie opening dv shelters. He states the need for hotlines to help prevent or stop parents from sexually assaulting their children. It gave me pause b/c instead we've created a category of monsters known as "pedophiles" & have done little to actually stop the problem. Damn.

Of course. The Northern Chapter's Keep is in Charlottesville. At Mr. Jefferson's University of the North. Yeah, Deonn is a Tar Heel alright.

This is one of those times where I thank God that I will never have to be 20 again.

The real miracle is how Neal Cassidy didn't die until 1968.

Fellas is it gay to propose a threesome with your ex-wife to your male friend you're on a road trip with?

Lucille is correct. Your boyfriend friend Dean *is* a bad influence on you.

Woof. I remember what it was like to be 18 and angry and queer like this. I'm glad there's 25 years in between.

On the one hand, the language is great and I want to learn more about these weirdos. On the other hand, it's already apparent that Kerouac doesn't really think women are people.

Like watching the world's worst group project unfold.

Oh yeah this guy is autistic as hell

Yeah and where did that extra $25 come from? And how many of Emerson's trees did you cut down? Is that sustainable over more than a couple of years?

I dunno, Thoreau, why *are* the Penobscots selling baskets instead of being content with their bark houses?
Could it be that their land was taken from them? Could land ownership be the source of a lot of these woes you describe?

I dunno, Thoreau, why *are* the Penobscots selling baskets instead of being content with their bark houses?
Could it be that their land was taken from them? Could land ownership be the source of a lot of these woes you describe?

The least realistic thing about the novel so far? Getting an ongoing psych appointment through UNC student health services in less than a day.