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okay so i’ve decided that this is absolutely a vanity project because of the way it’s dragging. why you’d want to be vain about writing a faux-victorian novel in the 2010s is beyond me, but go off i guess

i have literally no idea what to make of this book, which is quite... vacantly pretty, but also presents itself as a book with quite serious political engagements that must be dealt with, and aren’t. logging this for myself going forward: self-reflexive mystery story narrator inhabiting characters as narrative positions; what’s up with the parentheticals?