>>21497839I feel like taking the words off the page kind of ruins the framing of them in that of the narrators perspective and personal idiosyncrasies, which are what stodgily translated 'OO'ELL'BEK kinda thrive on as a vehicle to deliver their otherwise staid observations
that being said Whatever was also his first novel, and Atomised is way funnier when it comes to talking about the hazards of sexual liberation vs the benefits of knowledge
as a singular quote, removed from the context, it seems like incel nonsense ye but also, it's not very good incel nonsense, and he has definitely wrote *better* incel nonsense
