#their love for each other is uncontested - unquantifiable - ineffable -- desperate and all-consuming

[reggieblk]

i finished reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt yesterday and i have a lot of thoughts and feelings about every single thing about it, but what I would like to address here, and it speaks for itself;

"8R, two keys and a combination padlock, 7522, the last four digits of Boris's home phone in Vegas."

- The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt, IV, chapter 9, X, page 532

and and and.....8 yrs later, the passcode is still the same.....it's the way Theo, 8 yrs earlier, didn't hesitate a second....it's the way Boris's home number guards Theo's dearest possession, the remnant of his mother, his very heart....it's the way it isn't Pippa's bday, or anything like that.....it's the way i sobbed when reading this line

(not to mention....not to mention....how "Popper" is "Popchyk" for as long as Theo gets back to NY and is with Hobie, never once Popper always Popchyk until.....until Boris comes back, and calls him Popchyk, and then, immediately, for the first time since Vegas, Popchyk is Popper in Theo's mind....because....because the rightful person who calls him Popchyk is back, and Theo no longer has to fill in for him, and, and, and--)

#hey i'm in the trenches over here #every single character i could talk about for years #and this is without even mentioning how Boris literally hunts that fucking painting down - at the detriment of his own life - because he #feels bad for what he did to theo - feels awful - and will do anything to make it up to him #“boris loves theo more” “theo loves boris more” you're all WRONG they were everything to EACH OTHER. and i mean EVERYTHING #their love for each other is uncontested - unquantifiable - ineffable -- desperate and all-consuming #i'm dying over here help me #the goldfinch #theodore decker #theo decker #boris pavlikovsky #boreo