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you know i think i am starting to understand why this book is read so ubiquitously in british schools and also hardly ever talked about outside of that context
— May 09, 2026 10:17PM
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christina
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this book inspires in me such an abject feeling of dread like there is not a single living soul in the whole world
— 3 hours, 40 min ago
It was a beautiful place—wild, untouched, above all untouched, with an alien, disturbing, secret loveliness. And it kept its secret. I'd find myself thinking, "What I see is nothing—I want what it hides—that is not nothing."
this book inspires in me such an abject feeling of dread like there is not a single living soul in the whole world
christina
is 10% done
from the footnote of my norton critical edition:
oh boohoo there aren't enough of her fellow colonizers around and her former slaves hate her so she's lonely :(
— Apr 04, 2026 08:49AM
Annette's feeling of isolation can be understood by looking at the Jamaican population census of 1844 in which out of 377,433 people only 15,776, or 4%, were identified as white."
oh boohoo there aren't enough of her fellow colonizers around and her former slaves hate her so she's lonely :(
