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Oh thank goodness the evil adults are just as stupid as the useless adults

Five years of books from now I should re-read this series because there are wealths of literary references that I can pick up as name drops but would mean something very different if I were better-versed in them, like with Poe and Orwell.

and ref to haruki murakami I can’t even—- just assume every name is a literary reference. Mikhail bulgakov in the same sentence was a Russian post-Dostoevsky author

AND madame bovary, lol. oh god she - nevermind.

The only reason I know that Dalloway was a cold-ass reference to Virginia Woolf is because I had recently started looking into reading her work and recognized the last name o.O

Okay, breaking with the foster parent formula has added IMMEASURABLY to the energy of this installation