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roosmarijn
is on page 12 of 311
”it isn’t running away they’re afraid of. we wouldn’t get far. it’s those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.�
“i never looked good in red, it’s not my color.�
”waste not want not. i am not being wasted. why do i want?�
2[7,11]
so powerful and clever
especially the “red isnt my color� thing, immediate deviance and notability
— Jan 11, 2021 02:38PM
“i never looked good in red, it’s not my color.�
”waste not want not. i am not being wasted. why do i want?�
2[7,11]
so powerful and clever
especially the “red isnt my color� thing, immediate deviance and notability
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roosmarijn
is starting
rereading and making thorough notes on this one for class
— Jun 08, 2021 08:23AM
roosmarijn
is on page 200 of 311
i so badly want to think something of this book, but my thoughts are just blank, i have no idea what to say about it
— Feb 23, 2021 10:43PM
roosmarijn
is on page 116 of 311
so many thoughts, so many notes and meaningless scribble made by me in the dark, so so many haunting references
— Feb 21, 2021 11:34PM
roosmarijn
is on page 30 of 311
”there is more than one kind of freedom (...) freedom to and freedom from. in the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. now you are being given freedom from. don’t underrate it.�
”they seemed to be able to choose. we seemed to be able to choose, then. we were a society dying (...) of too much choice.�
5[23,29]
it’s quite a frightening book
and a painful one
— Jan 11, 2021 03:23PM
”they seemed to be able to choose. we seemed to be able to choose, then. we were a society dying (...) of too much choice.�
5[23,29]
it’s quite a frightening book
and a painful one
roosmarijn
is on page 7 of 311
”we yearned for the future. how did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?�
1[3,4]
the contrast between the gymnasium in the past and the gymnasium now; a place that used to be so free of motion and movement and life and wildness and old sex now the complete opposite; emptiness, the constriction and lack of movement and sound and freedom
it’s laughable really
so clever
— Jan 11, 2021 01:24PM
1[3,4]
the contrast between the gymnasium in the past and the gymnasium now; a place that used to be so free of motion and movement and life and wildness and old sex now the complete opposite; emptiness, the constriction and lack of movement and sound and freedom
it’s laughable really
so clever
