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Where's the trigger warning

She still stays. Even after everything that's happened 😐I think at this point the author needed to show her trying to figure out how to escape, and why she couldn't straight away. I dropped the book for all of 30 seconds and only picked it up again to see what happens with Slade/Ravinger/Rip

Well. Their banter is disappointing to say the least. How can I believe that these characters are dangerous if they talk like typical angsty Americans 🤔

For blessed sake, the plot seems to have forgotten there is anything else occurring beyond a relationship. I could probably ignore this fact if it weren't for all the frustratingly immature miscommunication - this is not entertaining Guanzon!

'loneliness is the poverty, of self; solitude is richness of self'

Getting there...

'...if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life but love of death.’

Part 3: the brain 😍

Yawn

“Folk psychology is the kind of crude psychology we glean from cultural sources such as sitcoms. But that is not the way things happen in real life. Transparency is a myth—an idea we’ve picked up from watching too much television and reading too many novels...”

“This can be the curriculum that our children make for themselves and with us... We are entitled to find out about and learn anything we want... And it’s one of the most powerful ideas we will ever get.”

Proud Maisie is in the wood,
Walking so early;
Sweet Robin sits on the bush,
Singing so rarely.

‘Tell me, thou bonny bird,
When shall I marry me?’ -
‘When six bras gentlemen
Kirkward shall carry ye.’

‘Who makes the bridal bed,
Birdie, say truly?’ -
‘The grey-headed sexton
That delves the grave duly.’

“We are particularly sensitive to consensus information about empirical matters because we construe consensus as a proxy for truth. The more widespread a belief is perceived to be, the more we are inclined to hold that belief ourselves.”

“And we quibble over whether a glass is half empty or half full when, in reality, it’s full all the way—one part with liquid and one part with gas.”

“… self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.”

“In moody sadness, on the giddy brink,
I see him more with envy than with fear;
He has no nice felicities that shrink
From giant horrors; wildly wandering here,
He seems (uncursed with reason) not to know
The depth or the duration of his woe.”
Charlotte Smith

“Like evolution, history disregards the happiness of individual organisms. And individual humans, for their part, are usually far too ignorant and weak to influence the course of history to their own advantage.”

“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted.”