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Tony is unbearable

"A dried up scrap of cheese, a few lettuce leaves for which I could not be bothered to make any dressing, a tomato and a piece of bread-and-butter, followed by a cup of coffee made with coffee essence. A real woman's meal"
Girl dinner

Has a lot in common with In The Pond, but with a revenge obsessed misogynist as our righteous protagonist... it reads as a lot more raving than his others I've read

"I fainted from joy Ethel explained. Oh well some people do Bernard replied"
post-engagement sweet talk at its finest

I'm not shure I'm quite ready to enter socierty quite yet

The first half was a bit of a slog, but it's picking up now

slow going... just got a very confusing take on colonialism

"your sense-organs are too coarse-grained"

I fear I may have made a dire mistake in picking this up

its so hot I feel like I'm in Oran

Optimistically putting this in currently reading now that I'm 30 pages in (in French). Might switch to English if I have to. So far, horrifying

The self is horror and other people, no matter how close they may appear, are unknowable

I think Otessa Moshfegh would be a lot happier if consciousness could be severed from flesh

Book club read

They should rename sadism to yanagihara-ism

You might think hypochondria is the result of 19th century ideas about science and the self, but Aelius here was doing it almost 2000 years earlier. 😎