Trilling had y’all’s number

Sis ate y’all UP.

“The dominant emotions of snobbery are uneasiness, self-consciousness, self-defensiveness, the sense that one is not quite real but can in some way acquire reality.”

If you had told me the book that would make me laugh to the point of tears for its absolutely brutal assessment of contemporary aesthetics was going to be Trilling’s The Liberal Imagination, I simply would not have believed you.

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I would like to be held in Balzac’s bosom in the heaven of novelists.

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I do think it’s silly of him to leave Edith Wharton out of this essay because she, uhm, is right there.

Come now, Lionel. She and Kate Chopin are right there!

You wanna talk about moral realism. The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth are RIGHT THERE. Sksksksksk

I think there is a compelling case to be made for The Age of Innocence as a social novel. I don’t think it is primarily a social novel, but it’s not...NOT a social novel.

BRUH, Y’ALL DO BE DOING THAT

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