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frans is on page 69 of 294
“i saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.”

okay i love this metaphor i will take 10 pages of my journal to discuss this alone
Oct 24, 2025 06:40PM
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frans is on page 116 of 294
“i wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.”

exactly.
Oct 24, 2025 06:51PM
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frans
frans is on page 75 of 294
“and then i wondered if as soon as he came to like me, he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me, i would find fault after fault, the way i did with buddy willard and the boys after him.”

this is literally “does knowing me more lead to loving me less” but the POV of the evil spawn
Oct 24, 2025 06:48PM
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frans is on page 52 of 294
“i reckon a good person lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.”
Oct 24, 2025 06:38PM
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frans
frans is on page 17 of 294
“the silence depressed me. it wasn’t the silence of silence. it was my own silence.“

well damn
Oct 24, 2025 06:36PM
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