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“It was my first time seeing white people dance outside of television and for what it’s worth I thought it was very brave.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina

“Finnegans Wake is the richest, most indulgent, full-fat ice cream of a book and taking an entire semester-long class on any single text was already indulgent, so taking Finnegans Wake felt like an impractical and extravagant thing to do under the circumstances, which is why I did it.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina

“Anyway, another thing that kept me from reading the book is that Nathaniel told me to read it and I do not like it when boys tell me what to read.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina

“But a dozen books were hardly enough to last six months; he always read each one so many times over he’d nearly memorized them by the time the next shipment came.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel