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Emma
Emma is finished
“With a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.”

Still wordy and bleh but I think I’m just bitter
Jan 07, 2026 02:50PM
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Emma
Emma is on page 221 of 262
:p
Jan 06, 2026 02:31PM
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Emma
Emma is on page 159 of 262
Death comes sweeping down the hallway in a lady’s dress
Death comes riding up the highway in its Sunday best
Death comes I can’t do nothing
Death goes there must be something that remains
A fire of an unknown origin took my baby away

casual mentions of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin make my head spin. hit a rough patch, it’s picking up now

“As it turned out, it was I who got one of the best horses.”
Jan 06, 2026 02:30PM
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Emma
Emma is on page 159 of 262
Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

Determined to finish this but man is it boring. Like bro, I get it, you’re cool and know a bunch of people.
Jan 05, 2026 02:29PM
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Emma
Emma is on page 121 of 262
This whole book is just a New York indie kid trying to out diva everybody by name dropping the craziest pulls

Getting a big bored but in the best chapter of the book so idk what to say there. Idk what she’s talking ab and have no frame of reference but I know they’re super cool
Dec 14, 2025 10:30AM
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Emma
Emma is on page 91 of 262
I need to do some serious reflecting. Disappointed in myself that I didn’t give weight to the signs.

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.
… Yet sometimes that desire was nothing more than a wish to go backward where our mute light spread from hanging lanterns with mirrored panels.”
Nov 25, 2025 12:25PM
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Emma
Emma is on page 55 of 262
Maybe there is actual evidence that soulmates do exist
Nov 24, 2025 01:59PM
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Emma
Emma is on page 35 of 262
“In the end, truth will be found in the work, the corporeal body of the artist. It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it.”

I’m really excited to start this, her writing is incredibly poetic so far. This is gonna be deliciously devastating.
Nov 24, 2025 01:07PM
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Natalie Swanson I couldn’t focus long enough to try to figure out what that meant. Props for reading a whole book like this


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