“Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.” Richard Russo
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The Consolation of Disillusion
a site assembled by the personification of disillusionment.

Bookshelf

a curated stack.

The Hollow Man
T.S Elliot
Charolette Temple
Susanna Rowson
Straight Man
Richard Russo.
The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz.
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant

Media Shelf

Fall Out Boy, films on War & Violence Realism, Documentaries of the

abandoned children of Romania post Soviet union.

About

This site exists because there is not enough talk on the disillusionment in literature and media.

Updates

09/24/2025 —Expect more marginalia.

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