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13. Lucy tells her side of the story, edited as she wants it. Lurie keeps misreading her, not understanding. Cause guilt and salvation are abstractions. I don’t act in terms of abstractions.

Highest respect for Lucy knowing what’s important for herself and sticking to it…

The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment.

Not for the first time, he wonders whether women would not be happier living in communities of women, accepting visits from men only when they choose.

May people who do not believe in souls yet have them, and may their souls lead an independent life?>
p. 104

The day is not dead yet but living. War, atrocity: every word with which one tries to wrap up this day, the day swallows down its black throat.

11. Blunt and random violence. It came as unexpected as in real life and I am as shocked

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Lurie uses this argument as his excuse (for lack of a better word). But wat about the animal who manages to curb his instincts? There is no reward for that, except not having to go through the humiliation of punishment. Is that enough to compensate the missing out on the experience?

10. Not a veterinarian but a priestess

9. ‘Once you find things to do you won’t be so bored…’

…as long as I don’t have to become a better person. I am not prepared to be reformed. I want to go on being m myself.

That touched me more than should be expected. To have the mind to just say it like that…