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“She said that we didn’t know anything, either as children or now, that we were therefore not in a position to understand anything, that everything in the neighborhood, every stone or piece of wood, everything, anything you could name, was already there before us, but we had grown up without realizing it, without ever even thinking about it.”
This is the thematic crux of this book I missed the first time
— Jan 29, 2026 05:28PM
This is the thematic crux of this book I missed the first time
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Tim Combes
is 45% done
“And they voted for the Fascists, for the monarchists, as the Solaras wanted them to. And they thought that what had happened before was past and, in order to live quietly, they placed a stone on top of it, and so, without knowing it, they continued it, they were immersed in the things of before, and we kept them inside us, too.”
— Jan 29, 2026 05:28PM
