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The blurb of the book, the reason I chose to purchase it from the charity shop, finally started to happen on page 372 of 568.
Also turns out the bad guy of the book is just a povvo pretending to be posh and stealing artefacts to sell for money. He also have a depraved personality, of course. Incredibly Saltburn. The Fennels and Hislops of this world realllllly feel a certain way about the lower classes huh

Hm reading this for the archaeology repatriation book, thusfar there's unironic (?) Oxbridge Eton EngLit Classics wankery driving me mad. Plus the main character casually inherits the 5 bed flat of her dead fascist grandparents & only presented the tiniest scrap of class consciousnes when a child (felt guilty about the maid's bad room)

Did NOT realise this was Ian Hislop's wife ngl oops

Trying too hard to be The Bell Jar ...
Too many names and characters too little substance, i.e.,

"Helen and Emily met in the kitchen and had some coffee that Edith had left for Helen. Or maybe it was just left over. Helen asked Emily how her poems and paintings were going and Emily asked Helen about her son. Emily wondered if Helen really liked Edith, if she could really like." ........ and so it goes on

Putting down some thoughts now - the absolute butchering of the Scots dialect is killllling me, in what is otherwise a fun little story. The same character cannot use "ken" and "innit" .... the latter is English slang !! A 19th century scottish working class lad would never have that word in his mouth 😭

An unexpected amount of military history so far :$

sublimely strange

Damn this is good!

so damn interesting
notes for myself to keep track kind of 'dyophysite' nature of the King = duplication of his body, mortal + intangible
The condemed is an inversion of the King and the application of the King's surplus power upon the condemned = duplication of condemned's body -> 'soul'
the 'soul' arises from the power relations^ and hence the soul is a tool of power

Just finished Paneloux's second sermon. Going to be revisiting that one often. This section, the exploration of Cottard's attitude, Rieux! AH I wish I could finish reading now but it's half midnight

Very spooky to read during this pandemic

this may become my favourite Woolf 👀 much to ponder

The Working Day hit as hard the second time around

Must to go back to Fetishism of Commodities
Exploring different forms of value is a favourite so far