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Protima is 45% done

“The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt—and there is the story of mankind. […] The human is the only guilty animal.”

— Apr 02, 2026 01:32PM

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Protima’s Previous Updates

Protima is 94% done

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— Jun 10, 2026 05:01PM

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— Jun 10, 2026 05:00PM

Protima is 89% done

“It’s hard to give people things—I guess it’s harder to be given things, though.”

— Jun 10, 2026 05:00PM

Protima is 88% done

“She felt hurt that he had agreed so easily, and she laughed sourly at herself that she could ask a thing and be hurt when she got it.”

— Jun 10, 2026 05:00PM

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“I’m my own. I don’t have to be you.”

— Jun 10, 2026 04:59PM

Protima is 73% done

“And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist—or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.”

— Jun 10, 2026 04:58PM

Protima is 71% done

“In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears’ function to do this just as it is the eyes’ business to make stars twinkle.”

— Jun 10, 2026 04:58PM

Protima is 69% done

“I don’t want them to be sad. I hope I’m not so small-souled as to take satisfaction in being missed.”

— Jun 10, 2026 04:58PM

Protima is 68% done

“And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”

— Jun 10, 2026 04:57PM

Protima is 68% done

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”

— Jun 10, 2026 04:57PM