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i’m on verse 1 samuel 3:1

am i finally 50% of the way through?

i’m on verse 1 samuel 1:1

me: oh, cool! ruth gets a whole book 😯
ruth’s book: 2 pages
me: 😐

damn

when plath finds certain words she likes, man, does she like to use them. it gets tiring after a while

not done yet for today but wanted to share this quote.
“desperate, intense: why do i find groups impossible? do i even want them? is it because i cannot march them, tongue-shy, brain-small, that i delude my dreams into grand novels and poems to astound? i just bridge the gap between adolescent glitter & mature glow.”

sylvia makes me want to write in my journals better lol

i’m on verse judges 15:1

samson is an absolute menace

i’m on verse judges 11:1

triple 1s 👀

i’m on verse judges 9:1

god, the israelites are too funny. just pages upon pages of them being like “god is so great to us!” and then immediately turning their back to the lord lmao just over and over. that’s some real shit

i’m on verse judges 7:1

jael & deborah are some boss ass bitches 💁‍♀️💅

i’m on verse judges 4:1

i like how othniel & ehud get like 2-6 paragraphs; but shamgar literally gets 2 sentences. like, oh yeah, he too saved israel, for sure.

i’ve lost count of which journal i’m on, but the way she describes things is so delicious and other times i wish she would find another word that isn’t oblong.

(still reading appendix 10)
wow, i know so much about starfish now

i’m on verse judges 1:1

joshua has to be, like, the shortest book so far 😳 i personally really like the verse joshua 24:13, “so i gave you a land on which you did not toil and coyotes you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant”. idk, i feel like it’s a warning to be grateful for what they have 🤷‍♀️

no, i haven’t read 300+ pages in 2 days. i’m just in the middle of reading appendix 10 which they put in the back of the book

i’m on verse joshua 19:10

second journal down. sometimes it’s hard to follow, but i need to remind myself that it’s fragments of her life strewn together to tell a story.

i’m on verse joshua 16:1

i understand why they give alllll this information, but wow, an editor could have pared this waaaay down

“if you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - - - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself….beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. you are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”

i’m not done for the day, but i, too, like the
moon & thus like this quote.
“with masks down, i walk, talking to the moon, to the neural impersonal force that does not hear, but merely accepts my being. and does not smite me down.”

first journal down. it’s crazy to see how similar human feelings are & how things don’t change.

within two pages sylvia talks about the beauty of the world and also basically poetry about picking her nose and then how when she was younger she’d squat over a mirror and defecate. that one was way too much to read at 6:30 AM.