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Hey I fear it might just have been worth reading all these pages just to hear Dobbins say “No, you are not worthy of the love which I have devoted to you”

Dobbins really said “I’ll bark”

I feel bad for Becky until she opens her mouth.

Oh dw I WILL be peeping down under waves that are pretty transparent in order to see Becky’s siren tail writhing and twirling, diabolically, hideous and slimy, flapping amongst bones or curling round corpses

“Which of the dead are most tenderly and passionately deplored? Those who loved the survivors the least I believe.” Hey that’s so fucjed can WMT just let up for a second.

It’s no coincidence that the protagonist’s initials are BS…

I have been so patient I have been so open minded I have defended this book from all of the haters but this?? ANOTHER 4-page family backstory, spanning centuries, LITTERED with footnotes because it’s full of shorthand and in-jokes that make it actually incomprehensible to anyone who isn’t fluent in the political and social vernacular of the period, and for WHAT? A charter who MAY reappear once? I’m done.

“The cruelest looks could not have wounded him more than that glance of hopeless kindness” AAHHHHHHH

“Women only know how to wound so.” OOF

War and Peace but if it were a satire written by a Brit.