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Blowing up room? Fight club introduced. Marla and Tyler self-destructive relationship. Not seen together.

Protagonist meets Bob and Marla, love interest. Tyler Durden is movie projectionist. Narrator unhappy with job

Father has letter asking about whereabouts. Meets sue and Giovanni fired. Hella also mentioned away in Spain. Balancing desire for love and life? Prejudices

Brooklyn first and drives away Joey. Wants to be with Hella. Describes early times with Giovanni. Simple and descriptive cutting writing

Book openly acknowledges the jump between themes and years. Orlando questions norms - the noble who is also a voracious reader and writer, the great writer Greene who is irreverent

narration is present day and floats in and out between that and Orlando’s time via thoughts/commentary/imagery all at once

Difficult stream of consciousness style. Orlando has love but she leaves. Comments on manhood and appearances

Quit but kind of got back on, meets with old friends, trying Peyote and Yage now

Mexico. Bad incident with losing gun and fighting cops/bar people

Death valley

Guilty state case, doctor trying to get him off erugs

Tries to quit, keeps selling, gets arrested

Lovely book. I was approaching it as a “mystery” or finding out about Lord Darrington, but the ending makes it more clear - the book is about “dignity” as mentioned prior. Dignity in living life as you can, not just recalling and existing. Evening = remaining years of life?

Recalls conflict with Kenton and villagers hold him up. Lord may come up again?

Recalls Lords history with blackshirts and antisemitism with excusal of Jewish maids. Sus

Tense between Rupont, Lewis and lord. Father died. References to Ribbentrop and Darlington rumours - sus

Kenton really doesn’t like the Butler. French, Americans and English all seem to disagree on Germans and how much to hate them

Stage is being set. Talk about butler, father and Ms Kenton. Lord was concerned about Germany situation

Very fancy engleih

Weird childhood

Got to beach. Father attacked and shoots flare, upsetting boy. Father faces his own mortality and chooses to die in the boonies - son “carries the fire” with bittersweet ending of finding family

heading to sea. previous dream of life. bunch of guys burn snakes. trail of people and things set on fire?

Encounter with old man - old man survives by generosity? Withdrawn, refuses to talk about his past. Denies god and has no hope - continues but not sure why. And they find a train

They found food

Boy and father Starving. Boy asks about why they didn’t help others (they were going to be eaten) and if they would eat people. Unsettling

Father and boy set fires and go through house. House has people and a guy with stumps. Very creepy and in dilapidated conditions. They have to hide in the snow and boy has to think about what would happen if he had to kill