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It was the things themselves, but the way to arrive at them which brought so much confusion to the soul

And continued as if no human voice had interrupted her is crazy work

Also using money you don’t have that will negatively impact your future to make displays of wealth that will never last 🔥 basically we spend money on things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people who don’t care core

I really like his commentary on class: the rich making the poor feel as though they need to apologise for their poverty while in this case the poor are poor because of the rich

The discourse on natural hair is contrived. I know the message I just find it unoriginal

You have not done what everyone is doing and in this world that is one of the crimes

I think of you as the freest person I know
Then everyone you know is a slave

“People want so much”
“They want what they see others enjoying, that is all”

My father adored her as if she were a fragile China vase 🥰

For as long as I can remember my mother has talked to birds. I wish I had thought of this sentence first

Everybody is swimming toward what he wants. Who wants the remain on the beach asking the wind How?

It is very easy to get used to what is terrible

Why is this sentence so beautiful to me “As he went down a shadow rose up the bottom wall to meet him,and it was his own”

“…something unspeakably dishonest about a man who refused to take and give what everyone around was busy taking and giving…”

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which. THATS HOW YOU END A BOOK

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

This isn’t the same animal farm that old Mayor was dreaming of

Hmmm the way the scales have tipped is crazy, the propaganda, the army of dogs, the warped collective memory, the inequality, the perpetuation of class dynamics by educating the pigs but keeping the horses dumb. Honey

Alsssssso, Snowball v Napoleon, Lenin v Stalin coreeeeee

Crazy scenes, the violent massacre of those who “confessed” to be working with Snowball, it’s very Stalin mass massacre of supposed traitors

Second rebellion a brilliant depiction of how revolutions will often require a second more violent upheaval to fully deter retribution. Ie see 1905 and 1917 Revolution.

“Parasitical”

What happened to the milk?

The suddenness of the revolution in the book is very historically accurate, revolutions are often like rainfall quite unexpected, quick to happen, very chaotic and unplanned. I’m thinking Russia, Arab spring

I wonder if Sugarcandy mountain is a metaphor for heaven and delayed promises of religion

In fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing