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"Really good insights on Medusa, Jocasta, Helen, and the Amazons. I’m enjoying the audiobook but I also can’t annotate anything to refer back to which is frustrating, but I brought that upon myself." — Dec 09, 2025 10:38AM
"Really good insights on Medusa, Jocasta, Helen, and the Amazons. I’m enjoying the audiobook but I also can’t annotate anything to refer back to which is frustrating, but I brought that upon myself." — Dec 09, 2025 10:38AM
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(page 13 of 246)
"Oh my. On page 13 and I am already floored. I have a suspicion this will become one of my all time favourites." — Nov 09, 2025 06:34PM
"Oh my. On page 13 and I am already floored. I have a suspicion this will become one of my all time favourites." — Nov 09, 2025 06:34PM
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"I hate and I love. Why, you might ask.
I don’t know. But I feel it happening and I hurt. (Catullus)" — Oct 19, 2025 03:57PM
"I hate and I love. Why, you might ask.
I don’t know. But I feel it happening and I hurt. (Catullus)" — Oct 19, 2025 03:57PM
“Numbers and maps tell horror stories, but the stories of deepest horror are perhaps those for which there are no numbers, no maps, no possible accountability, no words ever written or spoken.”
― Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
― Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
“I don’t do anything with my life except romanticise and decay with indecision”
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“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“What keeps a poor child in Appalachia poor is not what keeps a poor child in Chicago poor—even if from a distance, the outcomes look the same. And what keeps an able-bodied black woman poor is not what keeps a disabled white man poor, even if the outcomes look the same.”
― So You Want to Talk About Race
― So You Want to Talk About Race
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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