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and they were roommates 😭

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don't rELAX there's still like 200 PAGES left bruv

this has taken a TURN and I'm not mad but it also seems wrong to enjoy it LOLOL

would recommend reading this while graduating from university to enhance pain— i mean, enjoyment

'Soon year four would start, then graduating exams, and then work. None of them knew what life might look like after that, but surely they could not remain a cohort forever... But the future, vague as it was frightening, was easily ignored for now; it paled so against the brilliance of the present.'

"For simple ink on paper was not enough to describe this golden afternoon; the warmth of the uncomplicated friendship, all fights forgotten, all sins forgiven; the sunlight melting away the memory of the classroom chill; the sticky taste of lemon on their tongues and their startled, delighted relief."

bruh Robin is so relatable for being forced to learn the Sanskrit alphabet as part of his linguistics education

i see why this book may not be written for/appeal to a general audience, but that being said i am a linguist not a general audience member