It should have been distressing. In truth, though, Robin found it was actually quite easy to put up with any degree of social unrest, as long as one got used to looking away.
Babel by R. F. Kuang
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It should have been distressing. In truth, though, Robin found it was actually quite easy to put up with any degree of social unrest, as long as one got used to looking away.
Babel by R. F. Kuang
How it feels to think about Altan in the big 2026
HOLY SHIT
I just finished babel
genuine tears were shed, that was the most beautifully devastating thing i’ve ever read
rejected Taipei Story review title
the dragon republic > the poppy war
some books are tragic because it was hardly possible to see the upcoming betrayal, but the tragedy of 'babel' lies in how we can see the end right in the beginning, and yet
𑣲⋆。˚ 'babel, or the necessity of violence' r.f. kuang
"she learned revolution is, in fact, always unimaginable. It shatters the world you know. the future is unwritten, brimming with potential. the colonizers have no idea what is coming, and that makes them panic. it terrifies them. good. it should."
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the empress, su daji | the poppy war