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What. There’s a woman getting an abortion in front of you and Yiorgos goes to talk to a customer? Leave it, man.

Poor Dafne and all other women who get pressured, coerced, and shamed like this.

Woman visits a Doctor for an abortion and he goes on a tangent about his sister’s love affair.

I thought she was the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, but maybe Defne is a Cool Girl instead.

First off, Kostas sucks. Secondly, shame on the author for writting this girlfriend-goes-through-your-phone moment. Thirdly, why not tell Dr. Normal, hey, I’m busy, can you call me after lunch?

How did the Tree offer a fig? Didn’t the butterfly simply…take it? — “I offered her my ripest fig.”

Ok, ok, so now butterflies talk to trees. What exactly are the rules here? — “When the butterfly shared this with me, I was surprised.”

Books tell me that the best way to get a girl to fall in love with you is to get hurt. Who says Men are simpler than Women?

Congratulations to Kostas for noticing that Humans are the only creature that has developed economics and trade. — “It’s only humans that do this,’ said Kostas. ‘Animals don’t….”

No, no, no. People don’t have sex the morning after they get their ass kicked and maybe have some broken ribs. Also, shame on Defne for not being more compassionate. — “…his lip, split and swollen, tenderly caressing the raw bruise under his left eye, the shade of a plum left out in the sun.”

Oh so cute, she makes light of his bleeding. Is she not curious how he got his ass kicked?

How am I at 70% when nothing has happened?

Author pivots to an even more conventional plot. I guess that counts as a surprise.

I’ve met women who have no qualms about their abortions, but never in books. What an interesting and stubborn disconnect.

Kostas asks a question but he already knows the answer. Also, maybe respects her boundaries, dude. So man asks you about your abortion and you ask him our for dinner? Poor straight women.

You’d think as an anthropologist Defne would have a more nuanced insight. Assuming this statement is true, maybe she could’ve said it’s because of patriarchal gender roles, or economic devastation for unemployed widows, or that more men die in armed conflicts, or anything else! — “But, on average, men who lose a spouse remarry way faster than women in the same position. Women mourn, men replace.’”

Death and the Maiden is a better exploration of this idea instead of David’s thought experiment.

No, I don’t think people bring up Pinoche at a first hang out in a pub. Well, maybe if they’re drunk.

Hey Kostas, yeah, it really sucks, we were digging and we only found ancient Roman bones we think are from the slave revolts, and some Jurassic femurs. We just left them over there and I think some animals took them over night, I don’t know. Who cares, right?

Sorry, sorry, but Defne found some prehistoric fossils and, as an anthropologist but also a human, found that to be…disappointing? — “You search for victims, you encounter medieval, Roman, Hellenistic bones. Or prehistoric fossils. Did you know there were pygmy hippopotamuses in Cyprus? Pygmy elephants! Then, just when you think you are going nowhere…”

My grandmother had Alzheimers and that’s not how it works.

Yes, like a little fawn. — “Defne and those silvery threads merged in his mind, wispy and fragile…”

Oh, please tell me Defne is now hideous or cruel or something.

…archeologist? Did something destroy her career then?

What a weird thing to say. Is it different anywhere else? — “…in this part of the world, all songs were about love or heartbreak.”

There are no other kinds of parallel lines. That’s the definition of parallel. — “…like parallel lines that never intersect.”

I can’t tell you how often authors write strangers giving books to the protagonist. UK has had free public libraries since 1849.

Defne would love kennings. — “Everything in life should be evoked in such detail, she had thought, rather than being given abstract names…”

Also, isn’t it inappropriate for Kostas to decree Tree is of the female gender without her consent? He gave his daughter some scientific explanation but it was framed as a lie to appease his daughter. Anyways, what’s biology have to do with it?

As the Tree continues to drone on about their own importance in human history but not flora history, I look and find that Ficus is a genus of about 850 species. Is it really fair for this single Tree to take credit for the greatness of other species?