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“I will never understand people.”

“There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. ... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself—no offense intended.”

Seems good so far, but has this author ever heard the phrase "don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do"?

"“It is too bad,” said Mrs. Herriton. Irma said it was three bad, and was told not to be rude."

But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.

"Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour."

I'd forgotten there was any use of the n word in jeeves D:

DNF, I don't need to hear any more about how funny the SA accent is or how fat the random women he sees are (not to mention that Chinese people apparently speak in "nasal yips", wtf)

You can stop making fun of people's accents any time, Paul.

"I went to a place where poor people lived 10 years ago and there were still poor people there :( Later, back at my fancy hotel, I thought to myself 'isn't slum tourism kind of voyeuristic and exploitative?' but then I decided to keep doing it anyway."

DNF. I hate all of these people and I don't care what happens to any of them.

Everyone says "you have to trust the author" when reading this and like structurally/plot-wise, sure, but by this point I can't help thinking that maybe it's DFW who is racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist and bad at spelling in both French and English rather than say every single individual character.

Everyone says "you have to trust the author" when reading this and like structurally/plot-wise, sure, but by this point I can't help thinking that maybe it's DFW who is racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist and bad at spelling in both French and English rather than say every single individual character.

god Lloyd is annoying

"If people appeared to behave pointlessly in grief, it was only because human life was pointless, and this was the truth that grief revealed."

"To say time will remove these ills is not good enough." - Sergeant Arthur Walrond

"The mind of a child and the beauty of a grown woman: the most tempting of combinations."
ew.

I'm enjoying this but I wish they'd use real swear words instead of ~fantasy swear words~

Is my brain not working or is the timeline of this too confusing?

"About the only thing that could make the Timaeus and Critias more Pythagorean would be for Poseidon to carve the words DON'T EAT BEANS into the Atlantean plain with his trident."

Listen man, even if your wife only found out you were cheating because you told her you were at your mum's but then your mum called to talk to you, it's still not your mum who ruined your marriage, it was you.

"“Marry me, so I don’t have to ask permission,” he says, his voice rough."
wtfffffff

The comma splices are annoying me already.
Are there going to be female characters who get to talk soon?