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Uggggh there too many to be read books for this spring cold shit.

If a consciousness of the uncertainty of life can dispose you to serious and useful thoughts, I would not deprive you of the benefit of such reflections, whether you do eventually recover or not.

And here we see why all men want to marry their mothers, with the added bonus of being able to rape them and beat them as they please.

"That is quite possible," remarked Heathcliff, forcing himself to seem calm, "quite possible that your master should have nothing but common humanity and a sense of duty to fall back upon. But do you imagine that I shall leave Catherine to his duty and humanity?..."

If I cannot own this body, let it fall into the void.

It's a day of note indeed when one finds a Dalkey Archive on a shelf of Pop Fiction.

'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' is very acute and all, but one needs blood to live.

'Why did you let the dog out?' he asked. 'You knew I wanted him.' 'By what token?' I replied; 'by throwing the book at him? but perhaps it was intended for me?' Change the vernacular a tad and the locale a bit and the century a smidge and you have an A+ crash course in US masculinity. This is why time =/= progress.

Rereading for class.

"I've still got the right," he told himself, "but I no longer have the means to put my anger into effect."...The means! Is that what one's "rights" were?...

Gotta love the smell of gaslighting in the morning.

C'mooon, Marías. Keep your head in the Shakespeare game and stop drifting off into Normalizing Rape Culture Land. Your rating depends on it.

There's nothing like a Marías work when it comes to firing one up for tackling 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare'.

The story of the Brontë sisters is one of many reasons why I so fervently promote books by women. I'm never going to get over it.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS AND MRS. DALLOWAY COMING UP NEXT QUARTER FOR CLASS AHHHHHHHHHHHH.




'Great Expectations' and 'Jude the Obscure' will be good for reading cred, I suppose. BUT NONETHELESS.

(dictionaries are as distracting as maps)

Starting off my newest batch of acquired books with an author I haven't touched since 2010.

The amount of Elizabeth Hardwick at this book sale pleases me.

ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA

The World's a Printing House

There's a mountain in my mind,
I must be true to it.
There's a mountain in
My mind and I
Must read it
Line by
Line

MAMDOUH ADWAN

Tired of Soliloquies

I sing for debilitating love,
for a body of dew, wasting.

I sing to sift through what remains of silence:
slaughter, the shreds in its wake,
and the cover of green words.

I prefer to think it not only possible but necessary and salvific to bring poetry from one language to another, with Hans Magnus Enzensberger's caveat: "kann nicht Übersetzung von Poesie sein"": what is not poetry cannot be a translation of poetry.

One more final until I can write ALL THE REVIEWS.

*hugs non-school books* I've missed you so.

Onyx! black prince of roses, you make me bitter and I swim in the waters—darkness of your iron grip, oh mourning of a queen! downy black spider. May you be cursed, black stone of blood, clot of humours and miasmas.

I read what I'd written and thought once again: from what violent chasms is my most intimate intimacy nourished, why does it deny itself so much and flee to the domain of ideas?

Really hoping Faulkner doesn't actually hold by all this bloodbound eugenics shit.

You know how 'Middlemarch' is really great cause it gets into all these people's heads and doesn't fuck around with sentimentilization or objectification? This work has much less philosophy, but you get my drift.

There will be a year in which there will be a month, in which there will be a week in which there will be a day in which there will be an hour in which there will be a minute in which there will be a second and in that second will be the sacred not-time of death transfigured.

I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed.

Rereading for class.

I would have hated him less if he had been less bored with his inventions.