Matt’s Reviews > Tropic of Cancer > Status Update
Matt
is 56% done
Such a huge Paris! It would take a lifetime to explore it again. This Paris, to which I alone had the key, hardly lends itself to a tour, even with the best of intentions; it is a Paris that has to be lived, that has to be experienced each day in a thousand different forms of torture, a Paris that grows inside you like a cancer, and grows and grows until you are eaten away by it.
— Apr 30, 2024 05:15AM
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Matt
is 96% done
I've been reading and re-reading this book for two years. It has been an odyssey. I'm obsessed with its captivating prose and can't bring myself to finish it, but it's time to do so.
— May 22, 2024 01:38AM
Matt
is 77% done
Stay on the earth, you eagles of the future! The heavens have been explored and they are empty. And what lies under the earth is empty too, filled with bones and shadows. Stay on the earth and swim another few hundred thousand years!
— May 14, 2024 12:29PM
Matt
is 66% done
Paris is like a whore. From a distance she seems ravishing, you can’t wait until you have her in your arms. And five minutes later you feel empty, disgusted with yourself. You feel tricked.
— May 07, 2024 03:03PM
Matt
is on page 148 of 318
My world of human beings had perished; I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets spoke to me in that sad, bitter language compounded of human misery, yearning, regret, failure, wasted effort.
— Apr 30, 2024 04:44PM
Matt
is 57% done
The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world, the charnel house to which the stinking wombs confide their bloody packages of flesh and bone.
— Apr 30, 2024 03:39PM
Matt
is 46% done
For the man in the paddock, whose duty is is to sweep up manure, the supreme terror is the possibility of a world without horses. To tell him that it is disgusting to spend one’s life shoveling up hot turds is a piece of imbecility. A man can get to love shit if his livelihood depends on it, if his happiness is involved.
— Apr 25, 2024 02:31PM
