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“Like all twenty-one-year-old men, he believes himself to be immortal, and with greater cause than most.” Istg I’ve read a sentence almost identical to that one recently but I can’t remember where. Tbf it’s an extremely common take and like. Idea. But still. I recognize it SOMEHOW

100% one of my revenge fantasies. Good for you tarere. Even if it doesn’t fix anything

this book loves to invent new shit for me to get sad over :,(

“Antoine makes a noise in his throat. Blows his nose into his denched fist. We need to get rid of it, he says. Hide it all.
Vidal empties his own pockets. More rings, pearls-still warm, he says, rolling the luminous string through his fingers. Yes, he says.
Hide.
Where? asks Tarare.
Vidal and Antoine look at him.
No, says Tarare.
Yes, says Antoine.”
Jesus. Fuck. This was sadly very very funny to me

“Tarare sees the shimmer of metal between their bodies and all falls silent except his mind, which repeats as refrain: it's done it's done how sad how sad. How sad for beauty to have its blood drained and its eyes closed and to find its end like this, on a dirty white road under a sky of enormous and indifferent blue.”

tarare is my favorite bicon

“Soaking his skinny legs in the stream, he watches the other children cheerfully—the little girls piling stones on the bank, the boys wading mid-stream to kick sudden rainbows into the sunshine, all their bodies variously hollowed by winter and purpled by fathers' fists—and feels no real desire to wed his joy to theirs. It is enough. He is enough.” Sugoi sugoi sugoi!! 🥹

oh my god this book has a lot of big, old words. i google them but also it’s kind of in vain due to the fact the very next sentence always has another word i need to google and im not immersing myself. SORRY I don’t know what CORNICE or ATRABILIOUS means