Process
Status Items Highlights Done See section below Claims None Questions None Output None
Highlights
Location 105
I will do my best to neither justify nor rationalize my actions. I will instead attempt to make an accounting of my actions and my intentions. The telling is not meant to elicit understanding or forgiveness. It is a confession in the deepest sense.
Location 199
I imagine it was at this point that I closed off the valves of empathy, for to feel anyone else’s pain would have meant most surely to feel my own, and this was intolerable.
Location 486
What privilege looks like on a rampage.
Location 560
You, once held highest, were tossed from the roof to live outside alone in dirt. You, once the center of my melting heart, were banished into purgatory.
✏️ Came up with a sacreligous version of this for the whole jinn thing.. God the abuser then punisher.. Or God banished Satan after that one offense.. No warning or anything.. “You won’t prostate to someone else (a thing I’ve told all never to share worship with me in first place).. Fine you’re banished to hell to be viled as the enemy”.. Overreaction much? (pair with banishing Adam and eve too.. Yet as humans we have ample leeway and forgiveness) 🔗 Location 560
Location 680
I was brought up in a time when men were praised for controlling and withholding their emotions. They were admired for their steely steadfastness and knowing the way. They never apologized. They never asked questions. They never explained. They never revealed their hand. They didn’t speak. Their silence was evidence of their strength and virility. They were expected to master the world and to lead with determination and assurance. The thrust of a man’s existence was to maintain his position.
✏️ Nailing the coffin that holds my adoration for batman. It’s harder and harder to hold him in esteem. 🔗 Location 680
Location 688
I see now that this particular notion of manhood is highly questionable, as great violence is always required to preserve it.