soph’s Reviews > One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This > Status Update
soph
is on page 109 of 208
“maybe we don’t read writers so much as become deeply acquainted with the sites of their passing, or their refusal to pass. what they thought beautiful or grotesque enough to document. where they chose to expend their finite capacity for concern” (101).
— Apr 21, 2026 06:56PM
Like flag
soph’s Previous Updates
soph
is on page 125 of 208
“and it may seem now like it’s someone else’s children, but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children. the problem with fixating on the abyss into which one’s opponent has descended while simultaneously digging one’s own is that, eventually, it gets too dark to tell the difference.”
— Apr 22, 2026 05:00PM
soph
is on page 63 of 208
“for now, a motorist made late for work or a colonizer’s portrait disfigured provokes more of a political response than any number of dead foreign kids can.”
— Apr 17, 2026 06:30AM
soph
is on page 29 of 208
“it is a hallmark of failing societies, i’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist” (14).
“it’s come to shape the way i think about every country, every community: whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever this nonexistence is violated?” (20).
— Apr 14, 2026 07:36PM
“it’s come to shape the way i think about every country, every community: whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever this nonexistence is violated?” (20).
