literature
can intellectual intimacy replace physical desire?
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“few people are perceptive and crass enough to notice where their emotions originate. that’s why we need novelists.”
good writing → integrates multiple philosophies to create a debate, yet the core of her argument comes from literature
nevertheless, i am irresistibly drawn to his novels. i love the way he describes loneliness, i actually lol when a character says something witty, i like how his characters are kind of fleshed out but we only see them in an observatory way, i love how atmospheric instead of explicit his world building of his more magical elements feel, and i love h
... See moremurakami has a pattern of misogynistic portrayals. for example, in wind up bird chronicles, there are unnecessarily sexual portrayals of may kasahara, and sexual assault is used somewhat as a plot device. in men without women (specifically samsa in love and scheherazade), female characters exist solely to be some passive admiration and projection o
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