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I do *not* know if the characters in this book are determined to rend their own flesh with the stubbornest of pride or if I’m identifying with the oppressor, but each reading binge I come up for air surprised to be in the present.
— Sep 19, 2026 07:35AM
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Novels that introduce you to completely novel concepts are absolute cake: nations as imagined communities, Benedict Anderson. Magisterial indeed.
— Sep 20, 2026 06:34AM