Mentions (7)
"Rather than wasting my time and energy on actively making my mental health worse, I have decided to consume more cultural content and expand my artistic taste. I will kick off 2026 by watching Requiem for a Dream and reading The Bell Jar. I have heard they are both very good."
"I couldn't sleep so I reread the Bell Jar which was perfect because it can be finished in like three ish hours (by me - I don't read quickly) and I didn't have to get out of bed to go grab it."
"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor..."
"*The thought of dancing with that little runt in his orange suede elevator shoes and mingy T-shirt and droopy blue sports coat made me laugh. If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit. Black or grey, or brown, even. Blue just makes me laugh.*"
"I will kick off 2026 by watching Requiem for a Dream and reading The Bell Jar. I have heard they are both very good."
"I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose."
"Some of my favorite passages from The Bell Jar"