Good Looking People in Small Clever Rooms That Utilize Every Centimeter of Available Space

Pages 528–548: Let me be cruel, not unnatural

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CW: animal cruelty

Topics of discussion:

  • Why we skip reading things;
  • Marathe and Steeply continue sitting; 
  • Joelle/Don Gately - veils, misunderstanding words;
  • Randy Lenz - doing a little cocaine;
  • Graphic violence and the purpose in the novel


    • See also:

    • The Cryptid Keeper (specifically, the cigar-smoking Kapre);
    • TV Tropes - So Beautiful it's a Curse;
    • Kejōrō (from Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki);
    • Harionago; 
    • 90s Ganguro style; 
    • Douglas Bader, amputee pilot; 
    • Circe (also a novel by Madeline Miller);
    • L'Academie Francaise - members are called "immortal"


      • We'll be reading pages 548–565 next time.

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