Sofia Moreira’s Reviews > The Confessions > Status Update

going on to book 3: my guy is officially crazy. like, he hid in some underground corridor system to FLASH women (apparently because the explicitness of it is very vague) because he was idle and “overflowing with life”. he only managed to get his shit together after M. Gaimes took him in as a pupil and started putting some common sense into his head

So… he was sexually harassed by a North-African Jewish man in the hospice. Their baptism to the Catholic Church was different - the harasser got to wear all white clothing while Rousseau wore a gray one - because R did not have “the privilege of being a Jew” which I thought was an odd sentence. but right after he got into a kinky platonic relationship with the wife of a soldier who lodged him for a penny or two

I loved the segment on money! Like the idea of hating it but being stingy about it is interesting - it allowing us to have freedom while we have it and enslaving us in the process of obtaining or searching for it. Seem pretty obvious nowadays but my guy was taking about this during the enlightenment… Other than that, the part on him being situationally passionate but overall very timid was, once again, relatable

The girl for whom he felt the more tender kind of love visited him in Geneva just for him to find out a while later that she had gone there to buy a wedding dress……..

Two kinds of romantic love: brotherly and passionate

two pages a day keeps the doctor away

Discoveries so far: he is a masochist but contained (?) the only time he actualised his sexual fantasies was with a girl his age when he was young but never again. A passage i thought was interesting was when he said he remained pure because he never gave into ravenous sensuality… but his fantasies don’t taint his purity?? idk it was a new perspective on the sexual purity subject for me

Pensando ainda se é surpreendente ou previsível que Rousseau tenha sido o filho preferido…