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i think i do not want to be a chef

that one Archer episode makes so much more sense

curmudgeon is not a good look on anyone

can't get enough of eco

hemingway in a tent. is there anything better?

don't make me sympathize with the dad, don't you dare

my favorite character is the gray modesty sweater

"i can't imagine anyone writing a novel" says the guy who left 500 of these fragments in a trunk

addictive, but what the heck IS IT

i usually only know the bare minimum about these portuguese books i've picked up, and i've always been taken by surprise by some interesting experimental aspect, e.g. saramago's death without interruptions. same here

this just tickles me so much

how have i never read this? so far it's pretty great haha

oh noooo not the prius

i started this on july 14, the story begins on july 14 so spoooopy

"colored"

I could champion racial justice in our home, or I could enjoy granny’s cookies. I went with the cookies.

(right out from finishing college in music and french, in 1951) Fred got a one-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side, … With a little help from his father, Fred got a job as an apprentice at NBC, a division of the RCA, in which the Rogers family was a major stock holder. … Fred had his Steinway piano—the concert grand his grandmother had bought him fifteen years earlier—delivered to his new apartment

hmmmmmmmmm

look for the helpers

Jul/3/1992: Both times I was accused [of shoplifting], I was dressed for cleaning apartments, wearing shabby clothing and smelling like Ajax, or Apex, I guess they’d call it. Does this mean I should wear a suit when running out for supplies and change back into my rags after returning to work? Of course, this is nothing. If I were black, I’d get this several times a day. And I’d be really angry all the time.

he finds his comedic storytelling style pretty quickly and does a bunch in that style, then there's a section here where he drops it and just tells things straight, no jokes intended. somehow that's the most interesting so far.

i'm also in the mood for IHOP

tearing through this. give me comedians living in tenements and working odd jobs any day

hardluck sedaris > serious sedaris > bitter retail sedaris

7 cervantes stories were amazing, i just can't not react to each one of these

"Enough that the skin of the world is littered with our contentious artifice, lepered with the stigmata of human aggression and despair, without suffering our songs to be flatted by savagery." i miss sentences you can just sink into for a while, like melting butter

i forgot how it feels to be unexpectedly dropped into experimental language for example if you mush words and thoughts together really fast it turns into a different reading experience not even reading anymore but but scanning letters and and words dont look like words seeing into the flow of thoughts into the meaning into the into into into into into into into into into into i n t o i n t o i n t o i n t o i n t o

And what claims has Lydia—what attraction has she beyond youth, health, and good humor that could make him, for her sake, forego every chance of benefiting himself by marrying well? YEESH

- Catherine: Very odd! ... The younger ones out before the elder are married!
- Liz: I think it would be very hard upon younger sisters, that they should not have their share of society and amusement, because the elder may not have the means or inclination to marry early.

elizabeth bennet replaces clownfish as my spirit animal

Collins back OFF

oh my GOD mr darcy you can't just say that someone's plain