I was forced to read Madame Bovary for a Western Civics class. If I could transport myself into that book, I’d give Emma the arsenic myself on page one. Then I would hunt down that whiny little shit Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye and give him a double dose.

I was forced to read Madame Bovary for a Western Civics class. If I could transport myself into that book, I’d give Emma the arsenic myself on page one. Then I would hunt down that whiny little shit Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye and give him a double dose.

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It’s not a race. You’re reading to relax, not break a speed record.