Carmen & Ayin & Benjamin In Omori
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“How is 12 year old Annabeth head of the Athena cabin??”
1. Demi gods have the life expectancy of a lemming.
2. Gifted kids often burn out by age 16 & I doubt any of the Athena teens have the energy or desire to argue with their little sister who willingly takes care of all the family paperwork.
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Clarice Lispector, from An Apprenticeship or, The Book of Delights written in 1969
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i dont know how else to put this but to approach books (or any media, really) solely for the sake of relatability is genuinely incredibly heartbreaking......to have such little (or such unwilling) imaginative scope that you cannot stretch yourself, even marginally, in a different direction to what you’ve known or are used to knowing when the very POINT of stories is to transport you somewhere else, into someone else, so you can do just that........when fran lebowiz said a book “is supposed to be a door!” and george saunders said good prose “is like empathy training wheels” they were right!!! they were so so so SO absolutely entirely right!!!!!
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Anna Akhmatova, You will hear thunder
Selected poems (1961-1963)
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in "Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends,"
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“dostoyevsky would’ve HATED to see the babygirlification of his characters” well if he was so against it then why would he make raskolnikov tall, thin, mysterious, miserable and socially inept ? don’t piss me off now
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