This is my third reading of When Breath Becomes Air, if you want a synopsis:
Before I go
He wrote this article as he was dying ^^
Saidiya Hartman is a brilliant writer, though a bit dense - and Reading Capital is my second favorite Capital-based book.
You know my hormones can’t take this“That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”

It never occurred to me to read books on separate days like that. You sound like an organized man.
I’ve been reading depending on my mood lol, you can tell I’m a woman
I’m going to try to do this , this year
I remember I tried to read this in middle school 6-7th grade and I didn’t know why the teacher was so surprised...she had no idea that for half the book , I thought the man was really invisible. I eventually figured it out in college
