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you think that you're so alone in the world then you read literature from hundreds of years ago and you realize that other people have always felt this way

i love reading, i love thinking about what i am currently reading, i love thinking about what i am going to read next, i love being privileged enough to be able to read, read, read, and read so much that i never tire of it

more people on this website need to be blogging about weird literature no one cares about

I think Shirley Jackson delves so well into the horror of self-consciousness. To be so aware of yourself, whether due to loneliness or not belonging or abuse, can be a monstrous experience that reduces your experience of the world to a series of mechanical processes. I will get up. I will cross the room in front of everyone. I will get a cup of water. I must drink the cup of water before I return in case it is odd to have it on the couch. They must not think I'm odd. Instead of swinging into the kitchen for a drink while laughing with friends. Mechanical processes are based on cause and effect, and if you are so used to thinking in terms of cause and effect, you can start applying that framework nonsensically out of a self-defensive need for control--which begs the question of what happens when defense becomes offense

i need this completed or ill die who is kitty?? WHO IS LYDIA

@scyllas-revenge this has your name written all over it. twice.

Ahh my two favorite things smushed together!!

no offense but reading is literally the cure to brain rot and there’s no work around to reading books

Every time you notice yourself losing your mind ask yourself when the last time you sat down and read a book was

only a reader would understand the urge to buy five more books whenever you see a book store despite having fifteen unread ones kept in your shelf

i just want to lay in bed and read books all day and not participate in life

had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header “the forcefeminization of victor frankenstein”