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Hey y'all!

Welcome back to Club Yme! If you're new here, curated playlists are our monthly entrée. Now paired with appetizing book excerpts. Thanks for partaking!

Really enjoyed reading Hisham Matar's My Friends. Some choice excerpts:

The trick time plays is to lull us into the belief that everything lasts forever, and, although nothing does, we continue inside that dream. 

It is difficult to kill a man, he told himself. Far more difficult than one suspects. And that is a hopeful fact: that life is on the side of life. 

That smell was also the wish that once a thing is printed it can never be erased, that time can come and go but a documented fact means the world cannot continue to pretend that nothing happened. 

Words will find their way. 

I live in a world of unreasonable men and the only reasonable thing to do in this situation is, best we can, avoid their schemes. 

Men and women walked in different directions, dressed for the workday, which was to them, as it was still to me, a day like any other, open, familiar, a variant of all the other days that had come before and those yet to follow, exciting exactly for its familiarity, for being both new and predictable, uncharted and known. 

A mercy, I remember thinking, that we are made to tire at the end of each day. 

Now for the main event.

February's Listening Notes

1. você conhece alguém que saiba mexer?
2. cuz we got 7 minutes of foreplay,
3. a compliment-fishing sesh,
4. couple wines and a couple whines
5. work after work, if you catch Miss E’s drift,
6. and some more work!
7. the thing is, the work doesn’t guarantee love, but it’s a sure fire way to keep you reminiscing, 
8. regretting,
9. and like it usually goes, begging.