This Week in Reading The Idiot by Elif Batuman Officially, The Idiot is about Selin, Turkish American girl attending her freshman year at Harvard in the nineties—but it is also about how bizarre and poignant every moment of life is when decontextualized from life as a whole; it is about how love is a tiny nightmare contained within a snowglobe, but your nose is pressed up so close to the glass that you feel like you have been left for dead in a blizzard; it is about the way college feels both incredibly important and incredibly unimportant, simultaneously.
life outside of a snowglobe
life outside of a snowglobe
life outside of a snowglobe
This Week in Reading The Idiot by Elif Batuman Officially, The Idiot is about Selin, Turkish American girl attending her freshman year at Harvard in the nineties—but it is also about how bizarre and poignant every moment of life is when decontextualized from life as a whole; it is about how love is a tiny nightmare contained within a snowglobe, but your nose is pressed up so close to the glass that you feel like you have been left for dead in a blizzard; it is about the way college feels both incredibly important and incredibly unimportant, simultaneously.