Status Updates From The White Album

who the hell uses the word “phantasmagoria” in the first paragraph 😭 joan would.
this reading journey is about to be unreal

Today’s lesson in humility: I was supposed to read this ten years ago in college and couldn’t because the simmering paranoia Joan describes in the first few pages annoyed me so much (I was callous and self-flagellatingly idealistic). Unfortunately I now understand it quite well