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"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much."
beautiful book with beautiful writing, broke my heart a bit
beautiful book with beautiful writing, broke my heart a bit
Jan 27, 2024
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πBeautifully written, very vivid magical realism. changed my life in high school I need to read it again
Jun 11, 2025
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A tense, slow burning, gripping read.
βIt's been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves and the cities have retreated to higher storeys. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway.β
King Lear meets the climate crisis. Just as stunningly written as Our Wives Under the Sea. I cried when I finished it this morning, mostly at it being over.
βIt's been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves and the cities have retreated to higher storeys. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway.β
King Lear meets the climate crisis. Just as stunningly written as Our Wives Under the Sea. I cried when I finished it this morning, mostly at it being over.
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πthe goldfinch - donna tartt
- my favourite novel of all time. it puts my sorry ass into perspective
the setting sun - osamu dazai - a pi.fyi rec !! pretty prose⦠waiting for the cryfest
regarding the pain of others - susan sontag - there is feeling pain yourself and then there is the empathy of watching someone in pain and trying to imagine that pain on to yourself. basically no matter how hard you try, itβs never done justice from our privileged position of not being in pain. thinking abojt this in regards to the shared images of the Palestinian and Sudanese genocide
the setting sun - osamu dazai - a pi.fyi rec !! pretty prose⦠waiting for the cryfest
regarding the pain of others - susan sontag - there is feeling pain yourself and then there is the empathy of watching someone in pain and trying to imagine that pain on to yourself. basically no matter how hard you try, itβs never done justice from our privileged position of not being in pain. thinking abojt this in regards to the shared images of the Palestinian and Sudanese genocide
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if you start zooming in on a pattern, and the pattern doesn't seem to get more simple as you close in, there's a very good chance you're looking at a fractal shape. my new computer hobby is going on google earth (clean setting - no borders or labels) and zooming into random places to see if i can find these patterns. and they are everywhere. in rivers, mountains, deserts, forests, coastlines and on and on. its genuinely stunning, and a little bit frightening, how the same shapes appear over and over again. the beating heart of iterative processes is plastered all over the globe at every scale. from above, the shape of a forest can look like a leaf, or a neuron, or a blood vessel.
great place to have a zoom is at the bottom of tibet, where theres a sharp cutoff between the icy mountain range and the grassy forests of nepal and bhutan. pic below is of the nile river in southern egypt. happy travels everyone
great place to have a zoom is at the bottom of tibet, where theres a sharp cutoff between the icy mountain range and the grassy forests of nepal and bhutan. pic below is of the nile river in southern egypt. happy travels everyone
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βi feel like im learning a lot abt u guys.
