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Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"

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Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

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when do you stop being a sibling?

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the way haymitch must have seen it as all his ghosts coming back to haunt him at once when katniss walked onto the train with the face of burdock and asterid, the pin of maysilee, the voice of lenore dove, and a background so devastatingly similar to his own. of course sweetheart slipped out. and of course he did everything he could to keep her alive

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— Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

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— Stalker (1979), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

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— Ernesto Sabato, The Tunnel

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— Ernesto Sabato, The Tunnel

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Sula, Toni Morrison

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— A Man Asleep, Georges Perec

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— The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

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On falling in love with suffering

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— Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

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— Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

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— In The Presence of Absence, Mahmoud Darwish

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— In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado

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— Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life