blackberries and sandcastles and ladybugs

WAIT i did not know that east of eden was literally in the bible like that

i have no clue what john steinbeck is like as a person but he's just writing punch after punch to the gut. "and I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. they will be what you expect of them [...] i think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb"

"you know, if chickens had government and church and history, they would take a distant and distasteful view of human joy. let any gay and hopeful thing happen to a man, and some chicken goes howling to the block"

halfway through this book and i still have no clue what it's about but i'm enjoying it so much. i need into cathy's brain. badly

on the one hand i want to post a post bc i think it's funny in that unfunny dark humor kind of way. on the other hand, it is possibly too much information to put out into the internet forever and also possibly in bad taste #mymixedfeelings

sometimes an event happens that you don't care about and almost against your will you learn so much info that you also don't care about