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"He knows that a lot of the literary people in college see books primarily as a way of appearing cultured. (...) It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys they liked to read about. (...) even if the book was really insightful, all books were marketed as status symbols. (...) Literature had no potential as a way of resistance (...)."

"Connell couldn't think of any reason why these literary events took place, what they contributed to anything, what they meant. They were attended only by people who wanted to be the kind of people who attended them."

"I just feel weird about all this, he said. I feel weird wearing a black tie and saying things in Latin. You know at the dinner last night, those people serving us, they were students. They're working to put themselves through college while we sit there eating the free food they put in front of us. Is that not horrible?"

Marianne es como un pretexto para hablar de Connell esa es mi lectura

Una de las cosas de este libro es que llevas 59 páginas y aún eres incapaz de decidir si Connell te parecería una buena persona o un capullo si esto fuese la vida real. Y, como con la mayoría de cosas que somos y existen, todo depende de la perspectiva.

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