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“Among the members only he and I wore tailored shirts with necktie loops on the underside of the collar. By these loops we were in some sense joined. As in a savage tribe I once read about in which, after childhood, brother and sister do not meet until the threshold of old age because of a terrific incest taboo, when suddenly the prohibition ends... no, the simile is no good.”

Left this one in the dust after not being captivated by the first story (‘Drive my Car’), but ‘Yesterday’ worked so well, mainly because it was infinitely funnier. It’s primarily the subtle linguistic mannerisms, and the little breaks between dialogue to reflect our narrator’s shortcomings that make this flaccid love triangle more entertaining than it should be.

You can’t ask for a better first chapter, really gets you in the filth when Roth imagines the post-war animalism afflicting Farley. No holds barred

‘The Lover’: Simultaneously desolate and intimate, cold but unnervingly close; you feel her untamed desire, her hate, her despair, unencumbered and whole. Yet you can never grasp it

“I was a modern-day hunter, riding my horse-bike around, delivering food to these basic fucks unable not only to make it themselves but even pick it up; hunting for food—foraging for nuts—at night, when safe from emotional predators; loving all my baes equally, according to the non-ownership-based polyamory of matriarchal yore.”

Gig economy escapades

Book picked up after beginning of part 2, where Breton switches from prescriptions of surrealism interlaced with musings on life in Paris to his encounter with Nadja. Language seems to take on more life and emotion; I found myself more immersed than ever after the 90 page mark

Began reading after checking it out of the library the other day, but decided to read only before sleep. Seems to be the most appropriate way to enjoy

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