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The Americans taught us how to build prisons.

Mann's spent the last fifty pages talking about how hot Joseph is, and for all intents and purposes he's got another fifty to go. It's his most consistent theme thus far.

Reading for class.

I'm not saying the titular story's the best or the only one worth reading, but it's good that it comes at the end to tie everything together.

Human measures designed to work against them were not, he decided, a sinful attempt to subvert His will and plans, but merely a way of putting it to a necessary test.

All my writing advice sounds like it came from a cross between an evil scientist and a preschool teacher. Spoon-fed brainwashing. That's my style.

Class on Jane Austen and her peers, here I fucking come.

I've come to the halfway point.

And here there be spoilers for Crimson Peak. Mann's certainly unnervingly up to date on his pop culture.

I don't write five page papers. I compile enough raw material for fifty and only give the prof the tip of the iceberg.

I'd be interested in reading an analysis of the various subjects that appear on page 666 within all the written works of the world which contain said category of text.

I should keep a blog that bundles up the authors I've built up GR profiles for on a particular day into a nice neat little post. It's nine in the morning and I already have three.

Welp, the "slaves built the pyramids" theory's been debunked. Least Mann didn't go the alien route like white people do so often.

I'm reading three works by women of color and each one's for a different class. Gonna appreciate this rara avis of an academic moment while it lasts.

Reading for class.

There's a kitty on campus hanging out by one of the libraries. Cats always know where it's at.

...I observed how careful they all were not to say anything that might wound my feelings. How gratifying this was, can be fully understood only by those who have been accustomed to be treated as if they were not included within the pale of human beings.

Ffffff. Alexievich's "Voices from Chernobyl" is sitting there in the library. Waiting just for me. Do I raise my number of simultaneous reads to five? Is that even a limiting factor anymore? The world will soon know.

Two books down, two to go.

Sorry, prof, but my calling the words of your favorite woman writer ableist isn't a misreading on my part. Pity/inspiration porn doesn't count as treating disabled people like human beings.

Here there be spoilers for The Ring and its various film adaptations.

Carting around my brick of a "Joseph and His Brothers" today. If anyone comments on it with a variation of 'shorter attention spans' Imma brain em, cause yeah things are obviously gonna change when the reading market's no longer confined to those who could legally own other human beings.

...one has at least deprived arbitrary power of their fulfillment, and though it rage in its fury—the dreams will search for their dreamer in vain.

I don't know if Joseph's coat of many colors was canonically his mother's wedding gown, and I don't care. Gotta say though, Mann, your colors are taking on an interesting hue.

That moment when you're having a nice discussion with a prof about a book and they end it by telling you they haven't actually read the book and are going off of articles about the book. #isthisthereallife #officiallyreadallthethings #phdorpaidposer

Children are not being inattentive when their teachers scold them for it; they are merely attending to things that are perhaps more essential than those their practical instructors have in mind.

Reading for class.

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
Destiny is not a metaphysical confrontation with one's self, rather, society has knit its pattern so tight that a confrontation with it is inevitable.

Anyone familiar with Sankai Juku? I'm about to watch a performance of theirs.

"Lord," he cried as he saw her die, "what are You doing?"