The Secret History

Okay I reread this and I am losing my mind. This book is amazing? It discovers and dives into the macabre, into all things perverse and weird. This is because the class are not subject to normality - they have created their own socialisation and so they have their own rights and wrongs. Charles does not see loving camilla in more than a brotherly way as perverse or incestuous - he is not aware of the social stigmas around incest. The same goes for the rest of them. This is why Richard stands out so much as the newcomer who's been newly exposed to all of their weirdness. He comments on Charles' and camilla's relationship and they brush it off as they find it normal. He is the only one to think it weird as he's the only one who's experienced life outside of the group. They all feared Henry I think. Nobody wanted Bunny dead beside him. Henry made them all fear what bunny would do, planted an image in their minds so he wouldn't sound crazy in his idea to kill him. Everyone was accomplices in his game. Henry I find so strikingly mundane but simultaneously insane. He talks so casually about the most odd subjects that it makes one question the normality of his world. My new favourite line is from Francis, who says, “forgive me for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.”