Yes, and I think the coziness is what makes the horrors of the second half so much more alarming. Like at first they just seem eccentric but gradually you notice a lurking menace within them (see: the bacchanal) as well as a certain nihilism on Julian's end (or at the very least a degree of pagan amorality) and then that whole last third of the book is just a cacophony of horrors as all the chickens come home to roost at once What was taking Greek like, if you don't mind me asking? I can easily imagine that major getting culty irl too

I literally blasted through the final 144 pages (I counted) in a mammoth afternoon session. It's so addictive And agreed, I feel bad reading it in August bc it's definitely a very good evocation of the endless Vermont winter

It was a retarded incident that spawned an even more retarded meme last year https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tradcath-e-girl-summit

"Tartt outdid her competition by metaphorically getting to the top of the 'combining the juxtaposition between traditional catholic femininity and the hyper online brainrot' mountain by doing it 30 years ago before anyone else did and having the prettiest face"

yarb

1 year ago

What it gains in comprehensibility, it loses in mystique. But I appreciate this.

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demiurgelovato

1 year ago

Thank you for preserving the final element, it's the most important one

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