#this book is lined with class and racial anxieties too cause its not like davids fears come without circumstances
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its like this whole novel giovanni is asking “what do you have to lose by being in love?” and david is like “everything” but losing that everything is only as terrifying as he allows it to be and it sucks up all his life and i just (HOWLS) everytime i read this book its like im begging and pleading alongside giovanni cause david cant find a way forward after this and grieving giovanni feels like grieving david too
#baldwin#this book is lined with class and racial anxieties too cause its not like davids fears come without circumstances#where whiteness can cannibalize you for standing outside the proper lines#its like i also. am sad for him cause thats how u become a ‘dirty old man’ by seeing human relationships along the lines of cost and take
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