Status Updates From Jacob's Room

what a turn!

Reverend Andrew Floyd? what a callback from chapter one!

Fanny goes to a museum to “got a fresh shock of Jacob's presence, enough to last her half a day.”

red flag. - “Magnanimity, virtue—such words when Jacob used them in talk with Bonamy meant that he took control of the situation.”

“…she jumped down, but not before Jacob had seen her. "Damn these women—damn these women!" he thought.”

mrs. Robinson. - “Thus she was arranged on the terrace when Jacob came in. Very beautiful she looked. With her hands folded she mused, seemed to listen to her husband, seemed…”

pompous . - “…the only chance I can see of protecting oneself from civilization.”

Jacob has some toxic tendencies

Poor Florinda except they only liked each other because they’re both pretty.

because he’s handsome, Jacob is constantly bothered.

book reads more like an essay. — “Byron wrote letters. So did Cowper. For centuries the writing-desk has contained sheets fit precisely…”

and then suddenly… — “It seems then that men and women are equally at fault. It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows…”

some English cultural references that i’m not familiar. penny seats? in parliament? a pun? Glad that I’m familiar with all these english literary references. not as bad as Joyce or TS Eliot, but still…

the time and pov jumps is like being inside an adhd mind.

lol — “Although the plays of Shakespeare had frequently been praised, even quoted, and placed higher than the Greek, never since they started had Jacob managed to read one through.”