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i’m sorry, the main character is friends with a habitual rapist????

why does Gwynne keep referring to someone’s mind as their “thought-cage?” so embarrassing 😭

this is depressing the shit out of me

absolutely loving this but why does Cato have to keep referring to Belle Moskowitz as “plump” 😭

why does everything always come back to the greeks. why does it feel like i need to know every single greek myth to understand classic literature

“Your suicide. As if it belongs to you. As if you rescued it from the flea market. Your suicide. A manner of death so frightening, we give it back to the dead as soon as it happens, unhanding it like hot coal.”

“The anxiety may have been a blanket but the sadness was a knife.”

“Do you have to forgive a person who dies by suicide? What if part of you is relieved for them? To be gobsmacked by suicide, to consider it in need of forgiveness, is a marker of solipsism, is it not? It’s to deny what the world if like for others, to decide that darkness exists in service to light, that darkness is the glitch and lightness is the control. Because that’s how it is for you.”

this book just called Bernie Sanders a socialist. like, i wish?

“One little girl broke up the whole kourtroom when she asked out loud, ‘Is that the fascist pig, Mommy?’ pointing up at the judge.”

“They attacked the Vietnamese for participating in the Paris peace talks, claiming that by negotiating the Vietnam Cong were selling out to the u.s. I think they got insulted when i asked them how a group of flabby white boys who couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag had the nerve to think they could tell the Vietnamese people how to run their show” WHY IS SHE SO FUNNY

a young girl admits to the author that she tried to kill herself once and the author is like WHAT ABOUT THE AQUARIUM lmaoooo what the fuck

now the authors are referring to native american women as “squaw” ………. why

“Perhaps, too, I had loved too early, too young, with all my being, and there was no room left over in me for anything else.”

the authors are now using the term hermaphrodite to describe a human… how was this written in 2013

So far it’s interesting but i’m feeling weird about certain choices the author is making, like describing certain tribes as “sophisticated” and others as “barbaric.” It’s also weird to me that the author acknowledges that “Sioux” is a word given to the tribe by their enemies, a word that is meant to be offensive, and yet continues to use it in lieu of other names like Dakota???