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Alice Madness: The Beginning 😅

The absolute delusions and hoops this woman jumps through trying to justify this man …

BUT we just popped a blister of a ‘twist’ so maybe we’ll get some development now. We kind of need it I feel. And they need to start talking to each other.

Still loving the satire though. And Elspeth seemed like a cray-cray queen

If nothing else this is reminding me why academia was not for me.

Also, chapter 13 was beautiful 🥹

This is all delightfully pretentious.

And as far as I can tell one big satire on the silliness of academia 😅 maybe that will change

This feels personal Kuang.
“He’s a medievalist, mind you” and the fact that book hoarders are in the First Circle of Hell 😂

Guess I’ll be in good company. Maybe.

“To be honest she had never gotten round to reading Proust, but Cambridge had made her the kind of person who wanted to have read Proust, and she figured Hell was a good place to start”

Honestly, not untrue