Zala’s Reviews > Katabasis > Status Update

“You feel you ought to get a refund from Hell.”
lol honestly, same. glad I didn’t buy the book or I’d want a refund for that too

”Take a strip of paper, twist it in the middle, and connect the ends. Very good. Now you have a ring, a three-dimensional object you can hold in your hand.”
now she’s just giving a lecture fr

“Oh, if only she could just shatter, if only this would all end—but it kept going on and on”
me at this book

“We follow the example of the Morning Star. We make our own paradise in Hell—”
“All right, Milton,” said Professor Mansfield.
“God has no hold on us,” said Gertrude. “Morality is for the weak.”
“All right, Raskolnikov”
ok she’s read milton and dostoevsky, but one after another? really?

ah so it’s peter’s turn

“I see.” Peter tilted his head. “That’s—hm. Fascinating.”
“You think it’s sick.”
it is yeah

”Alice hated this misplaced sympathy.”
girl, I don’t think it’s misplaced

”You think I’m that sort of person? That I’m capable of—of trading your soul, like you’re nothing?”
dude those notes are suspicious tho

this is somehow shaping up to be a love story about two people sharing the same shitty advisor

”But the benefits so clearly outweighed the costs, for what scholar wouldn’t have killed for her perfect recall? It was the age when everyone was getting excited about computing machines, and here Alice had become one. She would adapt; she had no choice.”
oof