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“But rather as it contributes more to exquisite mirth and laughter than any other; and these are probably more wholesome physic for the mind, and conduce better to purge away spleen, melancholy, and and ill affections, than is generally imagined”

This is like the 25th book I’ve read for Irish lit classes and somehow it’s the first one with my name in it

Book binding fell off so hard my copy of this is 75 years old and it’s in excellent condition

Planning to write on Woolf again 👀

Never want to hear people complaining about Russian names again because this book has ELEVEN characters named Thomas

My guy is defining terms 80 pages in

Who wants to play bumble-puppy with me

“The mute procession past her shoulders of trees and hedges became attached to fantastic scenes outside reality, and the occasional heave of the wind became the sigh of some immense sad soul, conterminous with the universe in space, and with history in time.”

New logo but they still haven’t fixed Moby Dick’s rating, crazy

What else am I gonna do with my weekend

“At any rate Tender Buttons was a very charming little book and Gertrude Stein was enormously pleased, and it, as everyone knows, had an enormous influence on all young writers and started off columnists in the newspapers of the whole country on their long campaign of ridicule”

NO WAY

Regrettable edition but what are you gonna do

I’ve never understood, is the copy of In Search of Lost Time supposed to be the entire thing? It has a cloth binding, which seems impossible to fit over 2000 pages in. Is it just Swann’s Way? Is it Swann’s Way marketed as the whole thing, since that’s the only part most people read anyways? I need answers!

The name Homer Simpson was such a jump scare

Running out of steam

Stunning development: white boy likes William Gaddis’ J R

Let’s see if it lives up to the hype

Happy Easter!