alaikadal

art, music, books and languages

[h0lmescarbuncle]

I just watched the adaptation of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' with Jeremy Brett. My life will never be the same. Jeremy is outstanding. His confession monologue is one of the best I've ever seen in cinema

[h0n3ym00n333]

coffee + ancient greek ˖˚⊹ ꣑ৎ‎ (or pics from study sessions that i never posted)

[caramelcuppaccino]

it’s been probably ages since i posted —but i still have a lot to study.

[petaltexturedskies]

He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[abigail]

when i got home after the new years celebrations last night, i took off my boots and found this pin stuck in the bottom of one of them,, a good sign for the new year perhaps ? :-) 

[tbdagent]

macarons are deeply fascinating to me. it’s such a precise science with so many highly sensitive variables. all to create a pastry that isnt that good

[classicsstudentsunion]

living with classics majors is so great because once I innocuously said "i love soup" expecting nothing in return and without missing a beat my roommate nodded sagely and said "like Dionysus in the Frogs"

[alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry]

For those of us who live at the shoreline

standing upon the constant edges of decision

crucial and alone

for those of us who cannot indulge

the passing dreams of choice

who love in doorways coming and going

in the hours between dawns

looking inward and outward

at once before and after

seeking a now that can breed

futures

like bread in our children’s mouths

so their dreams will not reflect

the death of ours;

For those of us

who were imprinted with fear

like a faint line in the center of our foreheads

learning to be afraid with our mother’s milk

for by this weapon

this illusion of some safety to be found

the heavy-footed hoped to silence us

For all of us

this instant and this triumph

We were never meant to survive.

And when the sun rises we are afraid

it might not remain

when the sun sets we are afraid

it might not rise in the morning

when our stomachs are full we are afraid

of indigestion

when our stomachs are empty we are afraid

we may never eat again

when we are loved we are afraid

love will vanish

when we are alone we are afraid

love will never return

and when we speak we are afraid

our words will not be heard

nor welcomed

but when we are silent

we are still afraid

So it is better to speak

remembering

we were never meant to survive.

A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde

[alaikadal]

Blood In My Eye - George L. Jackson

"It is to be born out of each popular struggle. Each popular struggle must be analyzed historically to discover new ideas. In the words of John Gerassi: “Building from one to the other, eventually the revolutionary cadre would become equipped with a theory rooted in experience, broadened by historical knowledge, tested by combat, and fortified by reflection.”

[ificouldlookoutyoureyesiwould]

[goodmemory-deactivated20240521]

Cochin

[sunbathe]

[hiyutekivigil]

[guulabii]

written by kaveh akbar

[fairydrowning]

– James Baldwin, from "If Beale Street Could Talk"

[TEXT ID: "When there's nobody but us we eat in the kitchen, which is maybe the most important room in our house, the room where everything happens, where things begin and take their shape and end." END ID]

[fairydrowning]

"Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite."

– By Joy Harjo, "Perhaps the World Ends Here"

"There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table."

– E.A. Bucchianeri

[alaikadal]

love conquers all, and so let us surrender ourselves to love

[alaikadal]