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finished the titular essay and as good as joan didion is, i don’t enjoy reading about people on drugs. ik that’s not the point of the essay and how it’s done great work in showing the underbelly of Haight and the counterculture movement of the 60s. But in the same way it’s labourious for sober people to listen to drunk people go on, i found myself dredging through this one. Personal preference that’s all.

travel day reading

it’s summer and i’m reading this again <3

more jabs at nietzsche!

“It does not occur to Nietzsche as possible that a man should genuinely feel universal love, obviously because he himself feels almost universal hatred and fear, which he would fain disguise as lordly indifference" (p734).

skipped a little to chapters on schopenhauer and nietzsche (pg 722-739) bc i got a bit bored. man is he a nietzsche hater and I'm so here for it!
"The whole of his abuse of women is offered as self-evident truth; it is not backed up by evidence from history or from his own experience, which, so far as women were concerned, was almost confined to his sister." basically calling him bitchless lmao

"To me the life of the businessman who eats his breakfast early in the morning, catches a train for the city, stays there in the dingy, dusty atmosphere of the commercial world, and goes back to his house in the evening, and after supper to sleep, is worse than the life of the galley slave – his chains are golden instead of iron."

why must I work? I'm just a girl.

adding all the stats from storygraph one by one