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This book is so European. She’s having a convo w a Danish person in English and she just went from France to Brussels. Ugh, polyglot society! American foreign language education is dismal. Also, I really love the world in thjs actually. Being unstuck from time is freeing as long as time passes linearly for you, even if it’s a different type of linear than everyone else.

[Nonetheless, I go on writing. conscious that my loose sheets of paper may contain my last hope that this fault in time is only temporary, the hope that the next sheer will never be filled, because time will return to normal and there will be no more eighteenths of November to write about.]

😍

Additionally, hasn’t anyone in her family notice how Tara has changed? Didn’t she remark at some point about her growing hair despite the time-standstill? Even one year can make a difference in noticeable changes in the face. Does her family not think she looks different?

I need some of these incredibly basic issues to be fleshed out by now.