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Such a chore to read, holy shit! A whole page about how he pressured women into sex! How absolutely lovely!

Próbuję wrócić do regularnego czytania, ale ta książka mi to utrudnia, a bardzo nie chcę dawać jej na półkę dnf. Na ten moment uważam to za górnolotny bełkot o niczym - ciężko wyciągnąć z tego jakieś wnioski.

“Oh, if only there were other men to be with, to fight that sparkling electric Thing outside there,to preserve the tenderness of life, the tenderness of women, and the natural riches of desire. If only there were men to fight side by side with ! But the men were all outside there, glorying in the Thing, triumphing or being trodden down in the rush of mechanised greed or of greedy mechanism.”

Apenas 16 páginas y todo lo que ha dicho de las mujeres y la sexualidad BRO, i felt THAT

"She understood perfectly well why people had cocktail parties, and jazzed, and Charlestoned till they were ready to drop. You had to take it out some way or other, your youth, or it ate you up. But what a ghastly thing, this youth!"

Love love the prose in here 🫶🏻💘

«She would sift the generations of men through her sieve, ans see if she couldn’t find one who would do.—’Go ye into the streets and by ways of Jerusalem, and see if you can find a man.’ It had been impossible to find a man in Jerusalem of the prophet, though there were thousands of male humans. But a man! C’est une autre chose!»

Clifford is so unlikeable!

You get chapters that are just him going on about “how women are” or the state of a changing England, then the next chapter you actually get progression of the story.