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He decided it should be me.” Her fingers curled into balls. “He didn’t even ask—he just decided—and then I was out, and he was gone.”
“Of course he did.”
“What does that mean?”
“But surely you knew.” Elspeth gave her a look of deep pity. “He was in love with you.”

ME ARDEEEEEEE

"Laplace's Demon"

Te aseguro que Laplace como matemática ya se debería considerar un demonio, sus demostraciones son una tortura.

Investigué más sobre el demonio de Laplace, encontré que es el Daemon Buer invocado por el Rey Salomón. Me pregunto por qué la autora se mete con muchas referencias al Inframundo menos la demonolatría o Ars Goetia.

¿Cómo continúo después de eso?

¡¡No me esperaba ese plot twist!!

¡¡R.F. Kuang te conté en confianza cómo me sentía estudiando una carrera de ciencia con enfoque en investigación académica (siendo mujer) y publicaste este libro!!😔

"The undergraduates, who were afraid of their own shadow, saw the way Professor Grimes spoke to Alice and assumed (perhaps rightly) that her stink of failure was contagious."

Alice, te quiero abrazar.

“All academia is shoving natural phenomena into boxes that won’t fit. They’d like to program it out because it makes them feel safe, because if they can point to all the sinners in Greed and Wrath and Tyranny and say Well at least I wasn’t as bad as him, then they don’t have much to worry about. And they get frustrated when Hell won’t play along.”

"And if that was true—then what difference did it make, what history you had, what love you’d shared? ...and the soul you had come to know was a newly crafted fiction...perhaps it was entirely possible...for you to look into the eyes of someone you’d been falling in love with, someone you had spent every waking moment with, whose breathing sounded as familiar as your own- and fail to recognize them at all."
Oh. Alice

"And if falling in love was discovery, was letting yourself be discovered the equivalent of being loved?"

"she still could not wrap her mind around it. She could not understand how you could open your mind to someone so completely, for so long, and then slam it shut again."

BESTIE SAMEEEE!!!

No me ví venir eso