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Bettmann. Sunbeams Shining into Grand Central Station. New York. 1930s

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this is still iconic

Elle confondait, dans son désir, les sensualités du luxe avec les joies du coeur, l'élégance des habitudes et les délicatesses du sentiment.She mistook, in her desire, the sensualities of luxury with the joys of the heart, the elegance of habit and the delicacies of feeling.

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via antigonick)

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La Mort de Madame Bovary, 1883, Albert Auguste Fourié

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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

If you love your fiction postmodern and experimental, try these…

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon for a vast, complex novel that destroys, rather than crosses, boundaries

The Recognitions by William Gaddis for a Faustian novel of intertwining characters that requires plenty of collaboration from the reader

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami for a chaotic and and complex journey through human experience

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov for a genius experiment in metafiction

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“According to traditional Japanese beliefs, all humans have a spirit or soul called a reikon. When a person dies, the reikon leaves the body and enters a form of purgatory, where it waits for the proper funeral and post-funeral rites to be performed, so that it may join its ancestors. If this is done correctly, the reikon is believed to be a protector of the living family and to return yearly in August during the Obon Festival to receive thanks.

However, if the person dies in a sudden or violent manner such as murder or suicide, if the proper rites have not been performed, or if they are influenced by powerful emotions such as a desire for revenge,love, jealousy, hatred or sorrow, the reikon is thought to transform into a yūrei, which can then bridge the gap back to the physical world.

The yūrei then exists on Earth until it can be laid to rest, either by performing the missing rituals, or resolving the emotional conflict that still ties it to the physical plane. If the rituals are not completed or the conflict left unresolved, the yūrei will persist in its haunting.” Read more HERE