Malraux by Axel MadsenCC, isn't this book 28 opened/started/unfinished? Sure is!
In my "defense" I've been waiting since last summer and I'm suer excited that I finally get to dig in!!!
Way less pics because it's print and that would be a bitch, but I really wanted to mentally highlight the paragraph about education and journalism 
This page means a lot to me!
From the Victor Hugo reference I have to look up now, to the part about Idina (HILARIOUS) To Nixon, trolling the press, and the bits about Edo art and caricature being unknown
i had a tough tome with this page (photo-ing it)
relatable
Dude got so mad he axed his own head wtf
I'm not saying religion will ALWAYS fuck you up, but I am saying, the closer you fly to the sun the more likely you are to melt your wings/brains
Between these two pages I am just 
The day after having sex with his girlfriend he went to ask his father to let him marry her (he wasn't 21) and I'm trying to look up what the time period French law for marriage was and instead I keep getting stuff about how Americans were running away to Paris for painless divorces When Paris Was Reno: American Divorce Tourism in the...
Uriel da Costa: the Story of a Nonbeliever - Museum ...His Jewish wife loved this movie and I was like "????????????" etc.
Relevant as I was just talking about the hierarchies and means for excommunication etc.
woodrift The Salmony paragraph is really what I wanted to add. It's talking similar to your Cass story 
oh neat. I'm outside doing some work right now but I will read that shortly
Oh Malraux you fucking dumdum
neat stuff!
things like this are why I love the Humanities. it encourages you to look outside of the box
I kind of love this 
(no wait, REALLY love this. Yes.) After our dummy tries to be Arsene Lupin and fails spectacularly, the newspapers do a TERRIBLE job proving again that 1924 journalism was SOMEHOW only marginally worse than 2025 
I mean... probably. I'm not 100% on that but after a year in prison and having to send his wife back to
(no wait, REALLY love this. Yes.) After our dummy tries to be Arsene Lupin and fails spectacularly, the newspapers do a TERRIBLE job proving again that 1924 journalism was SOMEHOW only marginally worse than 2025 I mean... probably. I'm not 100% on that but after a year in prison and having to send his wife back to
France to get help from his father and she has the ingenious idea of getting all his publishing/writing contacts to write affadavits testifying that he is NOT a professional theif, but a fervent lover of culture and publishing genius etc.
-> it works with the appeals court and then he decides to set up a newspaper in Indochina with the lawyer there 
Wild.
Wild.
I didn't know that
Clara is hilarious
relatable and tragic
time is a circle etc