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Lord this may be an unrealistic goal but i will finish this before my birthday

constantly thinking how would make this into a flim

she’s so confusing, god

Joana visiting her old and senile professor whose wife has left. She realises he’s happy…

“The Little Family.” The most grounded-in-reality prose, coming from Otávio, who is so much about reality, the body, he’s opposite to Joana, in a complimentary way, for now. This chapter: Man, God, The Body. Pure lucid philosophy, a Joana-like prose of a different kind.

Joana in love, natural but she questions herself later… “Love came to confirm all of the old things whose existence she only knew of without ever having accepted or felt them. The world spun under her feet, there were two sexes among humans, a connected hunger to satisfaction, animal love, RAINWATER HEADED FOR THE SEA, children were growing beings, in the earth the sprout would become a plant.”

Enter “Faithless” Otavio, Otavio. Attraction to cousin suppressed with repugnance, distance. Faithless? Dislike Otavio. Pities his fiancé. She’s submits to devotion, while also rebelling for her independence. Enter Joana. Likes her cos she seems unconquerable, for now. Weirdly written man by a woman. Opinion: done to highlight women’s feelings about men. But Clarice was that opening paragraph glorious.