Status Updates From The Making of Americans

A very unexpected event happened a few pages earlier on p.697: what I’m 99% sure of was the first presence of a ? mark!!!

This is a weird case where, after getting this far, I’m wondering to myself: “how did we get this far?” lol. I mean, I’m surprised. Like, how did this many pages happen? It’s not exhaustion resulting from long events. It’s just a “whoa.” Like having a [book] hangover but the party is still happening…..
And you’re still down to party…

Still working away at it

I’m feeling surprisingly angry. Angry that she had to wait more than ten years to be able to publish this. I’m angry For her.

“He was of the kind of men and women who, in the end, to every one, have been as if they had been a failure.”

“As I was saying those having in them independent dependent being have in them attacking as their natural way of winning fighting, as their natural way of winning in loving. As I was saying those having in them dependent independent being have in them resisting as their natural way of winning fighting, have resisting as their natural way of winning in loving.”

(436) there’s so much I’d want to write and say about this so far but status character limits be damned.

(386) I can’t help but kinda laugh how, this section is supposed to be about a character, and is titled after said character, but we have to go through 114 pages of preparation and introspection first 😆 Stein gives no f***s.

(366) “Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. Everybody has their own being in them. Every one is a kind of men and
women.”

(334)

(303)

“It is very interesting that every one has in them their kind of stupid being. It is very important to know it in each one which part in them, which kind of feeling in them is connected with stupid being in them.”

“Often the meekness of the patient submission of the dependent side of the dependent independent kind of them seems like the sensitive scared yielding of the dependent side of the independent dependent kind of them.”

(178). I sometimes struggle to find the right position to read this book. Sometimes I walk while reading it. Sometimes I sit upright, sometimes I lay back on the office swivel chair feet upright. No matter how interesting a book may be at times I sometimes start to doze off into sleepiness. I don’t often lay on couches reading as a result, sadly…

There are many kinds of men, of every kind of them there are many millions of them many millions always made to be like the others of that kind of them, of some kinds of them there are more millions made like the others of such a kind of them than there are millions made alike of some other kinds of men. Perhaps this is not really true about any kind of them, perhaps there are not less millions of one kind of men..

It’s often hard when there’s books that basically have no chapters. Gotta get creative with how to know where you left off. I’m trying to stick to continuing from a new sentence on the left page. Tricky tho when sentences span to the next page though..

“But all this will show more and more in him as I tell you slowly the history of him.”
Yes, please do Stein, and please tell it slowly because I worry still about if we’ll make it with this page length because I’m hoping you know where we’re going D:

This is a case where I’m concerned for the author. Stein, are you sure this is gonna be enough material for a book? I’m concerned you’ll be able to make it work for many pages and finish the book. I hope so. Granted, you already wrote the book 100 years ago..

Not sure if starting to read this is a mistake or not due to many factors…