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hm.

“you’re going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. something will grow.”

“when i said cathy was a monster it seemed to me that it was so. now i have bent close with a glass over the small print of her and reread the footnotes, and i wonder if it was true.”
first of all, obsessed with the phrasing of this. but also ! the narration is so interesting bc it’s like what do you even know ? how much info do you lose an time goes on ? how much of what you know is clouded by others ?