Status Updates From Going to Meet the Man

23/2/26-24/2/26 - Sonny’s Blues

The last three pages made all the strange reminiscence worth it. the way Baldwin manages to encapsulate relationships with metaphors that are poignant, yet irrelevant, is masterful. his words are like water and his endings never fail to leave me stumped. 4/5

"nothing’s going to change, baby, people are too empty-headed, too empty-hearted—it’s always been like that, people always try to destroy what they don’t understand—and they hate almost everything because they understand so little—"