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“What is it?” he said in Greek. “Drugs?” The Secret History; Donna Tartt {t. & a., with love and regards.}

[systemelunaire]

yea that's pretty much it

[asparagus-abernathy]

Bunny everytime someone tells him that metahemeralism is not even a word:

[sighingandsmh]

rip henry winter i know you would have had your mask on always and maintained six feet from everyone

[asparagus-abernathy]

[frozen-sea]

Note written in my used copy of The Secret History.

[asparagus-abernathy]

Henry: Who broke the coffee pot? I’m not mad, I just want to know.

[silence]

Francis: I did it, I broke it.

Henry: No. No, you didn’t. Bunny?

Bunny: Don’t look at me, look at Richard.

Richard: What? I didn’t break it.

Bunny: Huh, that’s weird. How did you even know it was broken?

Richard: Because it’s standing right in front of us and it’s broken!

Bunny: Suspicious.

Richard: No, it’s not.

Charles: If it matters, probably not, Camilla was the last person to use it.

Camilla: Liar! I don’t even drink that crap.

Charles: Oh, really? Then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?

Camilla: I use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles. Everyone knows that, Charles!

Francis: Okay, let’s not fight. I broke it. Let me pay for it, Henry.

Henry: No. Who broke it?

Bunny: Richard has been awfully quiet...

Richard: Really? Oh my god!

[everyone arguing]

Henry, to Julian: I broke it. It burned my hand so I punched it. I predict 10 minutes from now they’ll be at each other’s throats with warpaint on their faces and a deer head on a stick.

Julian: Good. It was getting a little chummy around here.

[asparagus-abernathy]

[thepersephonecabin]

aint no party like a bacchanal party cause a bacchanal party dont stop til a person is dead and you’re forced to kill your best friend to cover it up

[henrijwinter]

My favorite quote from The Secret History

[lets-throw-bacchanal]

I love the scene in The Secret History where Richard is writing his greek essay late so he just writes it in english and then translates. And he takes a moment to acknowledge that Julian told them to never do that... and then he happily continues. Zero fucks were given that day

[lunifs-deactivated20210131]

If I Made A Movie Adaptation For TSH: The Opening

The Secret History by The Chamber Orchestra Of London plays over the opening credits: the camera goes down a long, narrow hallway and enters a large room with a high ceiling and a polished floor. The camera stands in the center of a circle of six statues of Greek mythological figures (one for each character; 5 men and 1 woman; Hades = Henry, Persephone = Camilla, the others ???) and focuses on each one of them one by one, slowly at first but as the song reaches its climax, the camera speeds up and spirals around and around until unstability, seemingly falling down through the floor into a dark abyss.

On the black screen appears Greek (or Latin) words in red that translate themselves into The Secret History as the song dies down only for a pop/rock song from the 80s to blast through and the screen quickly fades into a scenic view of a summery Plano, California.

The camera then zooms into a street and follows a car that pulls up into a gas station with the radio blaring. Richard steps close to serve the two obnoxiously bright and lively people in the car (a young man and a young woman) and discreetly watches the young man’s hand that curls around the woman’s bare thigh as he pumps the car with gas. The young man curtly thanks him and tosses a couple of bills that land on the ground as they drive off.

Now alone at the pumping station, Richard picks up the money and drags himself back inside; his monologue starts as soon as the door shuts behind him.

[fighto-art]

‘But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’

[asparagus-abernathy]

THIS

[tedcruzisthezodiackiller]

Today on Buzzfeed Unsolved we investigate the mysterious death of university student Edmund “Bunny” Corcoran

[gayscooters]

do you ever just [i felt my existence was tainted in some subtle but essential way] [a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs] [beauty is terror. whatever we call beautiful we quiver before it] [forgive me, for all the things i did, but mostly for the ones i did not] [to live/ to live forever] [love doesn’t conquer everything. and whoever thinks it does is a fool] [anything is grand if it’s done on a large enough scale] [it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational] [i prefer to think of it as redistribution of matter]

[macaulaytwins]

I’ve never felt more seen in a work of literature

[tshasvines]

listen. I know you've taken "which member of the Greek Squad are you?" quizzes before and I know you purposely tried to get Francis. Do you want to know how I know that? Because I do too. It's okay. We're in this together. Don't worry, Francis isn't in here, but it's mostly women because frankly, there aren't enough of them in the main cast.

alright I’m hopping on board the uquiz train and it’s time to find out which minor character in the secret history you are cheers lads

[asparagus-abernathy]

henry winter be like “i know a spot” and then he throws you into a ravine

[localdumbasswitch]

francis abernathy be like “i know a spot” then he takes you to his fucking mansion