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Recently I had just finished House of Leaves (now one of my all time favorites although it took me 3 weeks) and coming off this I had picked up No Longer Human, The Bell Jar, and Tuesdays with Morrie today to hopefully keep this spark going. Just some I had seen on TikTok that peaked my interest as well. Now, I love when media dwells in the mental state of characters but man is it bad to say I saw some of myself in Yozo? I share a good deal of qualities with Yozo, aside from the misogyny, and similarly a very VERY bleak outlook on life and people not too dissimilar from what is expressed in the book. Now initially after finishing I started to try and decipher meaning and make sense of specific pieces but then I stopped. I stared at the wall realizing that I had just looked into the downward spiral of man. A man similar to me with similar quirks and vices. All of this to say, my eyes are opened and in no way regret picking this up. Not to cross lines here but this quote from HoL has never rung more true:
"Another example of how the mind, any mind, consistently seeks to impose itself on the abyss." (p.522)
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