Psych-lit

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opening paragraphs of all time

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

[fluentisonus]

really interesting site btw that compares the text of the 1818 frankenstein to the text of the 1831 frankenstein section by section

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“Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom … at 12. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide Ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning. I don’t suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but I shall not try it longer. Lord B.’s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it… . [P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective … . I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. I wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley on the lifestyle of Lord Byron (via timemarauder)

[fluffmugger]

#i am glad history has produced at least two people whose shit was even less together than mine

[pemberlaey]

nobody does chapter titles like charles dickens

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WWC’s A Beginner’s Guide to Academic Research

We are pleased to present  WWC’s A Beginner’s Guide to Academic Research!

This pandemic project has been over 2 years in the making and we hope it will greatly assist any of our readers who are eager to conduct in-depth research but may be at a loss where to start. 

Go to the Guide Here

The guide is split into 6 parts:

Introduction and Table of Contents

Part 1: Getting Started

Part 2: Searching for Sources Online 

Part 3: Evaluating Sources

Part 4: Navigating Academic Sources 

Part 5: Recognizing Your Limits

Each portion of the guide has links to connect to the previous and next sections. While it is possible to view tumblr pages on phones and tablets through the app, we highly recommend viewing this guide via browser on desktop whenever possible. Tumblr page formatting is better suited for browsers and each section is very dense with information, which will make scrolling in the app or on your dashboard difficult. 

Future FAQ/ Discussion: 

As noted in part 5 of the guide, for the next two weeks, we will be keeping an eye on the notes for this post. If you have further questions or comments about academic research, drop them here and we will select the most pertinent to respond to in a later post. 

If you find this guide helpful, we request that you consider tipping the moderators below for the work and time required from conception, to drafting, formatting and debugging. Their ko-fis are listed below: 

Rina: https://ko-fi.com/arcanabean

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[callmebliss]

Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?

[macleod]

I've seen this passed around a few times, and I have one thing to say:

It's online. The book was carefully and wonderfully recreated online by hand. You can find it here. The entire book is this easy.

calculusmadeeasy.org

[lifeinpoetry]

Free Palestine Reading List

Haymarket Books: Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine!

Verso Books: Solidarity with Palestine: Free Resources and Further Reading

OR Books: THE FREE PALESTINE READING LIST

City Lights Books: Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha

[lifeinpoetry]

Guernica: Voices on Palestine

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nabokov’s strong opinions

[givemearmstopraywith]

online library so far:

margaret atwood

the brontës (the complete works is a MASSIVE file fyi)

anne carson

hélène cixous

bell hooks

clarice lispector

audre lorde

virginia woolf

compilations

feminist theory

academic writing (both books and articles)

everything here is in pdf format so you should be able to download and read it on any device. it’s slow going because i have a lot of epubs that i have to convert before uploading and the folders i’ve listed here are neither complete nor comprehensive, but it’s a start! 

[healingcaffee]

things that should be completly normal:

not going to uni

taking as much time as needed before going to uni

changing your majors many times before finding what you like

changing your career path

not knowing what you want

attending a community college 

valuing your health over your grades

[lovely-v]

sometimes i think about how tolkien said golf exists in middle earth and then just never mentioned it again ever

[lovely-v]

Tolkien invented the absolute sickest and funniest backstory for the game of golf I’ve ever seen and then had none of his characters play or talk about golf in any of his works. the nerve

[mrdirtybear]

Irish poet William Butler Yeats on his death bed in January 1939. This is the last image of him made when he was alive. read more about this picture and Willie Yeats himself here.

[lovely-v]

sometimes i think about how tolkien said golf exists in middle earth and then just never mentioned it again ever

[lovely-v]

Tolkien invented the absolute sickest and funniest backstory for the game of golf I’ve ever seen and then had none of his characters play or talk about golf in any of his works. the nerve

[ramonameisel]

12 Months - 12 Books

is a collection of poetry/prose books that will be published for everyone to download for free. Each first of a month the cover and synopsis of the book will be revealed, as well as the link to download the book as a free pdf.

Some books will be short, some longer, but each one will tell a unique story or theme, accompanied by a unique design. They will also be posted on my blog during the month they are published.

JANUARY - Parched ↳  post | excerpts | download the book for free

FEBRUARY - The Illusion of Tomorrow ↳  post | excerpts | download the book for free

MARCH - Phantom Kisses ↳  post | excerpts | download the book for free

APRIL - The Bone Song ↳  post | excerpts | download the book for free

May - Blessed ↳  post | excerpts | download the book for free

June - 2 A.M. ↳  post | download the book for free

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

collected jeanette winterson: pdf

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[katriniac]

Did I watch this several times?

Yes.

Did I giggle every time?

Also yes.

[vfollia]

“If you want to understand any moment in time, or any cultural moment, just look at their vampires,” says author Eric Nuzum. Our vampires are not like the remorseless Victorian vampires, who had a taste for the blood of babies and did not seem to feel badly about it. Our vampires are conflicted. Some of them go hungry rather than feed on humans, and some of them drink synthetic blood. “Almost all of these current vampires are struggling to be moral,” the journalist Margot Adler observed […] “It’s conventional to talk about vampires as sexual, with their hypnotic powers and their intimate penetrations and their blood-drinking and so forth,” she reported. “But most of these modern vampires are not talking as much about sex as they are about power.”

Power, of course, is vampiric. We enjoy it only because someone else does not. Power is what philosophers would call a positional good, meaning that its value is determined by how much of it one has in comparison to other people. Privilege, too, is a positional good, and some have argued that health is as well.

Our vampires, whatever else they are, remain a reminder that our bodies are penetrable. A reminder that we feed off of each other, that we need each other to live. Our vampires reflect both our terrible appetites and our agonized restraint. When our vampires struggle with their need for blood, they give us a way of thinking about what we ask of each other in order to live.

— Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation