something that is so freeing is divorcing yourself from the academic insistence that a well read person must read any and all classics to be taken seriously. start a book and don’t like it? start a book and it’s too disturbing or offensive? simply put it down. you don’t have to waste your time reading something you hate in your free time for intelligence points. sometimes intelligence is just knowing when to walk away.
#rabies.txt #ok to rb #this is specifically about lolita #every time i’ve tried to read it it has deeply upset me #which yes IS the point however #i don’t have to put myself through that if i don’t want to #i don’t have to put my mental health on the line for being Academic Enough with my free time and hobbies #yes i think many of the classics have social value #but it is not the job of the individual to uphold that value #particularly in the case of highly disturbing media
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