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"Studying was considered a ploy used by the smartest kids to avoid hard work. How can I explain to this woman — I thought — that from the age of six I've been a slave to letters and numbers, that my mood depends on the success of their combinations, that the joy of having done well is rare, unstable, that it lasts an hour, and afternoon, a night?
— 17 hours, 35 min ago
"Studying was considered a ploy used by the smartest kids to avoid hard work. How can I explain to this woman — I thought — that from the age of six I've been a slave to letters and numbers, that my mood depends on the success of their combinations, that the joy of having done well is rare, unstable, that it lasts an hour, and afternoon, a night?
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Geral(dine)
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💬 or so he said b4 tryna kiss her (my empathy for his melancholy only extends to about the size of a fingernail)
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"Why are you so willing to let your erotic pages be called 'risqué' (...) that was mainly because it was written by a girl; obscenity, he said, is not alien to good literature, and the true art of the story, even if it goes beyond the bounds of decency, is never risqué."
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"Why are you so willing to let your erotic pages be called 'risqué' (...) that was mainly because it was written by a girl; obscenity, he said, is not alien to good literature, and the true art of the story, even if it goes beyond the bounds of decency, is never risqué."
Geral(dine)
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💬 an easier and faster read so far, but I'm feeling the pull less than with Vol 1+2 😔
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"What am I to the Airotas, a jewel in the crown of their broad-mindedness?"
— 17 hours, 37 min ago
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"What am I to the Airotas, a jewel in the crown of their broad-mindedness?"
Geral(dine)
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💬 I thought we had finally escaped the clutches of the "what would Nino like me to say" mind prison but here we are agaaaain freeee heeeer.. I can't stand it any longer...
— Mar 28, 2026 08:13AM
Geral(dine)
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"You want to write about us? You want to write about me?"
"No."
"Tell the truth."
"It would be too complicated."
"You've thought about it, though, you're thinking about it."
"A little, yes."
"Let me be, Lenù. Let us all be. We ought to disappear, we deserve nothing, neither Gigliola nor me, no one."
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"(...) I can protect myself."
She laughed in her old mean way.
"Not from me."
— Mar 28, 2026 07:31AM
"You want to write about us? You want to write about me?"
"No."
"Tell the truth."
"It would be too complicated."
"You've thought about it, though, you're thinking about it."
"A little, yes."
"Let me be, Lenù. Let us all be. We ought to disappear, we deserve nothing, neither Gigliola nor me, no one."
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"(...) I can protect myself."
She laughed in her old mean way.
"Not from me."
Geral(dine)
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💜 Volume 3 💜 ...which I own two copies of now because both Michael and I decided I need a pick me up :DD hehe whoopsie
— Mar 28, 2026 06:35AM
