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Just like Piranesi if Piranesi was bad and twice as long and written by what I can only assume, from context clues carefully hidden in the text, is the most insufferable person on this planet
— Dec 21, 2025 11:40AM
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Mariana
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"But all this was a fairy tale. In relentlessly enforcing the glamour, she had closed off her other options. And now she was left in a trap she had constructed for herself."
You and me both, girl. Hate-read inching dangerously close to a DNF.
— Dec 27, 2025 02:15PM
You and me both, girl. Hate-read inching dangerously close to a DNF.
Mariana
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"In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine."
That's not a quote from katabasis. It's from a much better book.
Anyway, Kuang should have made this book about the evils of modern academy, and the only reasons why she wouldn't are cowardice or a fetishization of the very aesthetic she's trying to condemn.
— Dec 25, 2025 10:18AM
That's not a quote from katabasis. It's from a much better book.
Anyway, Kuang should have made this book about the evils of modern academy, and the only reasons why she wouldn't are cowardice or a fetishization of the very aesthetic she's trying to condemn.
