Nepenthe

[unbotheredmuse]

[booksinantwerp]

styling by Dirk Bikkembergs

page 106 from Mode, Dit is Belgisch: lente/zomer '85 published in 1985 by ITCB (Instituut voor Textiel en Confectie van België)

[ilbluprofondodelmare]

Diana Blok and Marlo Broekmans, 1980 - 1981

[yoyoyopt]

[kitsunetsuki-deactivated2026051]

Guy Bourdin - Swimsuit by Issey Miyake (Vogue Paris 1983)

[xod]

[vol-d-oiseaux]

“Brutal perhaps, but at the same time delicate, very delicate.”

— D. H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works; “The Rainbow,” wr. c. 1919 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: Lesbian; Sacred Sexuality- by Diane Mariechild & Marcelina Martin

[lionfloss]

via NASA Hubble Space Telescope

[watchoutforintellect]

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[moonyslake]

when henry winter said that all he ever wanted to do was live without thinking, i felt it on a profound level

[thebellekeys]

“To be absolutely free! One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal! These are powerful mysteries. The bellowing of bulls. Springs of honey bubbling from the ground.”

- The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)

[gauchogf]

my toxic trait is that while i understand books like gatsby and the secret history and this side of paradise are literary criticism of the upper class and i appreciate that aspect of it i also low key romanticize the hell out of then

[thewildetyme]

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”

— Sylvia Plath

[bitterbloodrose]

richard: francis is so intruiging. he looks like a mysterious prince, look at the way he eats his cherries. he’s a walking miracle.

richard: everything henry does needs to be worshipped. he’s an actual god. the physical manifestation of a celestial being. a deity not of this earth.

richard: i could watch charles all day. my favorite thing about camilla is how boyish she looks, and how much she looks like her brother. he’s the most fascinating person alive. I could literally stare at him 24/7.

richard: I, a heterosexual,

[sidereusimber]

Quotes : Jonathan Safran Foer // Albert Camus // Donna Tartt // Donna Tartt // Friedrich Nietzsche // Edgar Allen Poe // Rainer Maria Rilke //

Art: 2. Adrian Ghenie // 4. Heinrich Gogarten // 5. Henrik Aa. Uldalen // 7. Michel Voogt // 8. Erika Seguín Colás // 9. Yanjun Cheng // 13. Henrik Aa. Uldalen // 14. Chris Veeneman // 17. Henrik Aa. Uldalen // 18. Maurice Sapiro

[therealrichardpapen]

The secret history is a comedy and here are the facts:

Henry is trying to understand math only to poison someone.

Henry killed a dog only to prove a point to himself that he can kill someone with poison.

Henry was so ready to poison the entire Greek class only to get rid of a bitch. Bruh, have you heard of using a knife and digging a hole??

When Henry called Francis and Richard picked up, and then Francis whispered: tell him I'm not here and then Henry said: I know he is there. HENRY AND FRANCIS SOUNDED LIKE A 20+ YEARS OLD MARRIED COUPLE!!!! Donna Tartt, you wrote a comedy; not a drama!!!

Francis coming out of a bush saying: Henry, can I smoke now? Waiting for murder is so boring, I need nicotine.

The fact that they tried to flee the country in the middle of the semester was insane!! What were you thinking????

They wore bedsheets to summon a god in the woods!!!!!! I don't blame them, I would try it too.

Bunny never questioned why his friends were covered in blood. We all have our dumb moments, BUT IF MY BEST FUCKING FRIEND CAME INTO MY HOUSE WITH A BLOODY SHEET ON, I WOULD FREAK OUT

Henry, mastermind, killer, prodigy, speaker of 8282838 languages (dead and alive) wrote in his damn diary how he killed someone??? I gotta give it to him, at least he used another language. But still dumb asf.

Again, Henry, a genius, used the excuse of "picking up ferns" from the woods with his entire greek class, completely ignoring Richard Papen, the only person who kept his murders secret!!!!

And bunny, what a dumb mf. He truly believed he would live after threatening the fantastic four??

Your honour, the secret history is full of clowns and I love every single one of them! Case closed.