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Part III: Ch. 6
This is finally picking up. More formulation of masculinity: potency, abnegation, domination.

Part III: Ch. 5
Don't send your kid to all-boys school lol in fact, avoid compulsory education altogether

Part III: Ch. 3
In which the narrator attends Mass.

Part III: Ch. 2
Finally some proper prose, actual scene-building (first time, in almost 300 pages) and it's a transexual sex act... O tempora, o mores! Mentions Stendhal at least.

Part III: Ch. 1
Some more commentary on education. Hatred, we also learn, at least can make somebody very motivated.

Part II: Ch. 15
Interesting reflections on justice, forgiveness and history. Does forgiveness redeem the victim or eradicate the past? The author asks, parallelly, if his book in an attempt to draw attention to the crime preserves its violence.

Part II: Ch. 14
The veneer of autofiction is disappearing

Part II: Ch. 13
In the ranting of Mr. Golgotha, some talent is on display in capturing his idiosyncrasies and thick, accentual voice. We learn: one part of yourself gratifies the desires of the flesh... and the other half suffers for it.

Part II: Ch. 12
Priests, Buddhist monks, the only perfection is a total separation from the world

Part II: Ch. 11
Something about the attraction of a someone overlaps into an obsession to become that very person.