2026-05-14

-# Thursday, May 14, 2026

Today's Reading

Main Ideas / Arguments

-Need to get some Constance Debre quotes that show how her external world becomes a reflection of her internal world; ie; giving up her bougie life to sleep on the floor in a shitty apartment.

-Need to get some Swann's Way quotes, particularly about him being such a pick-me-girl

-Need Chris Kraus quotes about pick-me

-Need Tenant of Wildfell Hall quotes about painting

Need to add Sonnets from the Portuguese

Confessions of an opium eater: addiction, dreams, interiority: the incestuous mother: Milton, sleep no more, Macbeth, epistolary, men don’t have to appear moral

Read some of the Rossetti

Lucy snow comparing herself to plain furniture
These books are self described plain girls who have ugly hot men fall deeply in love with them and they all have a dog cause women just want men to understand us but we know they never could

“We take pleasure in being ignored”

Ch. 14 Villette transport

Theory Connections

Craft

Quotes

Questions

Notes from the Day

Diss ideas:
Material memoir: angry young parents, addicts, addict young adult, growing up, no care, physically changes the body, changes environment, trinkets poor people things, relationships, sex as self harm, body changing again.
Scott being mean to me because he hates women

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• The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard (1957)

• Rhymes Rooms by Brad Leithauser,

• Ursula Le Guin's Steering The Craft

The Feminist Architecture of Postmodern Anti-Tales**

Tomorrow