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is 13% done
i understand absolutely none of chapter 8: all the fields all the battles, but i feel like it’s realistically possible to decode it. wondering now if i would be able to understand this better if i had been more familiar with her ideas from her other books first. or read more cixous.
— Mar 15, 2025 08:50AM
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Val
is 13% done
this book really feels like itself a work of literary criticism of the sort i read for classics. really interesting
— Mar 15, 2025 08:52AM
Val
is 10% done
i really like the detective and the narrator’s intense observations of and thoughts on her
— Mar 13, 2025 06:54AM
Val
is 9% done
Feels like a book that may actually be too smart for me. I wonder though also how much would be clearer in Spanish. lots of repetitions of words and phrases of which i’m struggling to understand the significance
— Mar 13, 2025 06:31AM
