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Back then I wanted to tear down the icon of the author and abolish, too, the idea of a privileged reader- the text was to be a free, wild thing, open to everyone, belonging to no one, refusing an ultimate meaning. Which was a powerful feeling, but also rather isolating, because it jettisons the very idea of communication… Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone…
— Oct 07, 2025 12:01AM
Jen R.
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With time, we're less tempted to find serious only those matters clothed in the garments of Seriousness.
— Oct 05, 2025 11:34PM
Jen R.
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I imagine Forster would have been surprised by that statement and perplexed by their concern for his literary status. He thought the words highbrow and lowbrow ‘responsible for more unkind feelings and more silly thinking than any other pair of words I know'.
— Oct 05, 2025 11:09PM
Jen R.
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It is about the discovery of self in and through another. It implies that even the dark and terrible banality of racism can recede to a vanishing point when you understand, and are understood by, another human being. Goddammit if it doesn't claim that love sets you free.
— Oct 05, 2025 01:50AM
