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mysterious
"Fevvers felt that shivering sensation which always visited her when mages, wizards, impresarios came to take away her singularity as though it were their own invention, as though they believed she depended on their imaginations in order to be herself. She felt herself turning, willy-nilly, from a woman into an idea."
emotional
reflective
"What had happened between Shehan and me over the last few days had changed my relationship with her [my mother] forever. I was no longer a part of my family in the same way. I now inhabited a world they didn't understand and into which they couldn't follow me."
"Then he began to rage again, but this time more against Lafala. . . . Oh, to be outwitted by a creature of the jungle! . . . A half-helpless savage. . . . A mere black stump of humanity. . . ."
emotional
reflective
sad
Vive l'autofiction! Also the supplementary materials at the beginning and end own... Tennessee Williams you were exactly my kind of pretentious self-indulgent artist (compliment)
"Well, I — started out badly."
"Well, I — started out badly."
mysterious
"In that house I could confess to things that were over and dead. I did not seem able, somehow, to go on and talk of the future, of anything which looked beyond the instant in which we were."
mysterious
"It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill."
emotional
mysterious
"What happened then I can't describe, can barely remember. I think I saw something that I shouldn't have seen. But maybe it was nothing to do with sight, was purely a brain event. I flail around for an explanation, or at least a metaphor. It was like a lightning bolt, fairy-stroke, the touch of the Goddess, death itself, birth."
Somehow simultaneously way too short and perfect as it is.
Somehow simultaneously way too short and perfect as it is.
funny
reflective
"God is the word
and I know it backwards.
I know it as fangs
inside my flanks.
But I also know it
as a lamb
between my teeth,
as a taste of blood
upon my tongue.
And this is the only song
I've always sung."
Banger book ॐ Also shoutout to Amit Chaudhuri... I wasn't familiar with your game. Didn't think much of the novella by him that I read a couple years ago but his introduction to this book was great so I'll have to give him another chance.
and I know it backwards.
I know it as fangs
inside my flanks.
But I also know it
as a lamb
between my teeth,
as a taste of blood
upon my tongue.
And this is the only song
I've always sung."
Banger book ॐ Also shoutout to Amit Chaudhuri... I wasn't familiar with your game. Didn't think much of the novella by him that I read a couple years ago but his introduction to this book was great so I'll have to give him another chance.
reflective
"words that do what words are supposed to do that is to say sowing doubt and harvesting nonsense whipping up passions and extending the thrill folding infinity in quarters and scratching at the surface"
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
"The teachers saw it, but they tried to ignore it. We did too. It was fascinating. She was shamelessly breaking down right in front of us, and it was us, the other girls, who were embarrassed."