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the first story was perfection

i’m experiencing hysteria

i’m at the start of part 2 and i am so excited to see where this goes. i think the set up of this first half has me soo intrigued as to where this might go. is it going to be esoteric? shocking?? i dunno yet

Not the dialogue with Osama Bin Laden

i’m supposed to think this is funny and it so is not sorry

“when a woman blew smoke at a man it meant she was definitely interested, and when a man told a woman her dress was too revealing it meant he adored her”

I can tell off the first chapter alone this is going to be one of the more difficult Didion books to follow… I need to be all the way in on this

this book is too relatable but seriously this guy just got out of sex with his gi issues?

okay i need this to lead to a horror crescendo moment akin to Rouge or like some wacky violent display of sadism?

the allen setups r so fcking stupid sorry

idk the only takeaway from this book so far is like being a femboy >>>> & omg jonah ur so sexy!!!

why her mom’s black dog gotta be named Sambo like im not playing im genuinely asking

“Do not be sad, he said. You have begun your own journey, not into the world, like your friend’s, but into yourself and your memories. As they fall away, perhaps you will attain that enviable emptiness into which all things flow.”

GASPPPPPPPP

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when ur chronically depressed friend starts reading a dodgy non fiction abt mental health

“Never to think of a thing or being we love but have not actually before our eyes without reflecting that perhaps this thing has been destroyed, or this person is dead. May our sense of reality not be dissolved by this thought but made more intense. […] If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.”

“Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt. To accept the fact that they are other than the creatures of our imagination is to imitate the renunciation of God. I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”

“What is the reason that as soon as one human being shows he needs another the latter draws back from him? Gravity.”

psychologically uncircumcised

no because this is actually crazy

little women allusion was odd. like all trans books this is bringing up a deep well of shame in me. yay!

“The future of technology threatens to destroy all that is human in mankind, but technology doesn’t reach madness; and so that’s where the human part of mankind has sought refuge.”

literally Lispector is obsessed with rats 😖

everyone needs to get to this asap fcking thank you tourmaline

“Suzanne, her head in her arms, did nothing but protect herself, patiently. She forgot that this force came from her mother, she endured it as she would have endured the wind, the waves, or any impersonal force.”

“Forgive them, they believe in fate and are therefore fated themselves.”

“loving the impure was our deepest nostalgia”

“The damage we see in the natural world around us is a mirror, a reflection of the damage we see within ourselves” in relation to the world we’ve created around us. Innate disorder

“it was a kind of suffragette Kate Chopin look but greasy”