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"And while Victor was not - not by a very long measure - one of the most impressively diseased specimens I had encountered, he was certainly the most pitiable [...] because of the thoroughness of the infections. [...] Shapiro and I spent a few pleasant afternoons examining him, naming the diseases we could and arguing over the ones we could not."
Norton writing about one of his twenty-odd adopted kids, p. 390f.
— Nov 28, 2025 10:43AM
Norton writing about one of his twenty-odd adopted kids, p. 390f.
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Gideon
is on page 128 of 369
Still loving it. The narrator is so oblivious of how sociopathic he is. And I wonder whether he's aware he's very clearly gay.
I would love to get a glimpse into the other characters' heads just to know how they see the narrator, but trust the author to stick to the setup she went with so I guess I'll never know
— Oct 15, 2025 02:31PM
I would love to get a glimpse into the other characters' heads just to know how they see the narrator, but trust the author to stick to the setup she went with so I guess I'll never know
Gideon
is on page 37 of 369
"Travelers heading west would stop in Peet for [some food] before reembarking. The townspeople thrived from these impermanent relationships, which were in their own way pure: the exchange of money for goods, a pleasant farewell, the assurance that neither party would see each other again. After all, what are most relationships in life but exactly this, though stretched flabbily over years and generations?"
Ouch
— Oct 12, 2025 03:03AM
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Gideon
is on page 20 of 369
Ok, so the narrative framework here is that this is a former professor's autobiography, edited and prefaced by a character who couldn't care less whether the professor is a pedophile or not because he's such a brilliant academic. Cool cool cool
— Oct 11, 2025 03:25PM
