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Leaving the end for tomorrow… I don’t want to finish it

Everything is pain and agony now

« when their words would have worth and value because they were uttered, when they would not have to hide who they were, when they wouldn't have to go through endless distortions just to be understood. »
I’m emotional

Aaaah i just want more time to continue 😭

It got so much more interesting now love it and dark academia to the cooooore omg

Wow the chapter I just read

Getting even more interesting now

They had such a happy and nice summer and now I’m scared everything will go wrong

« Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods. »
Laughing

'Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?'
Love it, I wish I had more time to read it